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I honestly can't imagine thinking this is what one wants to do with their time. Like, I accept that I can't understand this sort of racism and such, but like, even if I was a bigot I can't imagine deciding that what I'm going to do with one of my afternoons is drive around threatening a child's birthday party.
But also, it amazes me that white Americans manage to feel aggrieved by black Americans even today. We're the ones who keep fucking them over not the other way around.
the term is "radicalized" but it's used so often it's lost all meaning. I'll bet good money these fucks were consuming conservative media, eventually one or both of them reached the tipping point where they basically thought they were soldiers in a day-to-day war, they feel emboldened because there are so many like-minded people bubbling up these days, they felt like they had a big community behind them thanks to the parasocial effects of conservative media.
These people obviously didn't grow up right, but absent today's fucked up hate pipeline that is conservative (read: almost all) media, I doubt they'd have been radicalized enough to do this.
It does show how right we were over the past decades, warning that latent racism had not ceased but instead was simmering under the surface of Everytown America.
I think you've put the cart before the horse, sorry to yell at clouds but I was raised in a "small town" and I can tell you that racism was rampant long before the media became so invasive (pre-internet).
They're not trying to influence as much as they are chasing the dollar, they are catering to a big market. These people have always thought they were race warriors, and holy at that.
For real turn on a conservative radio station every now and then to hear just completely unhinged bullshit. They jack that retard muscle hard on those stations
Same everywhere, the world is doomed!!!
"Now you can't even just peacefully drive in your car anymore and do nothing else than driving your own car, which is what they were convicted for - merely driving in their car? Wokeness has gone too far!"
I assume this is a historic post and not anything that's happened recently.
Looks like 2017.
So did they get pardoned by Trump or not?
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And ppl say that women are emotional.
And this is why they want to defund NPR, poison Wikipedia, and enshrine Twitter in its place.
Can’t manufacture outrage with so many pesky fact checkers.
He doesn't need to worry, his El Presidente Trump will pardon him in no time.
Study those facial expressions very closely. Look at what's happening here, because this is so indicative of the mindset of racists.
You look at most criminals at their sentencing, you tend to see either resignation, or remorse. There is neither here.
This is shock. This is disbelief. They did monstrous, horrifying things to innocent people, while fully believing that they had an absolute and unquestionable right to do those things.
When a guy robs a gas station, he knows it's a crime. He's simply reasoning that committing this crime is better for him than the alternatives. He knows it's a risk. He knows he will be punished if he is caught.
But these people saw no risk in what they were doing. They believed that the world protect them and celebrate their actions. They believed that it was their right and their imperative to terrorize people of colour.
Good points. And they aren't wrong if you look at how the country has changed negatively since Trump brought racism and hatred back.
The notion that Trump brought those things back is part of the exact problem I'm highlighting.
They never went away. America continues to be a deeply racist country, the kind of country that make people like this not only a possibility, but an inevitability.
while racism is a bad thing and they should be punished somehow, prison is the least useful or effective punishment and this is just stupid.
“Armed and threatening to kill”
That adds an entirely worse facet to it than the initial text lets on.
I was afraid this was about Aaron Paul for a sec. Anyone else see an uncanny resemblance?
Aaron Paul looks like the average southern drug taking boy, that's exactly why they cast him in BB.
I don't think this guy looks as much like Aaron as they both look like southern meth heads.
... Ohhhhhhhh actually yeah that makes sense. Okay yeah! It's an archetype that existed independently and Aaron Paul DOES nail it! Like, just aesthetically--as far as i know he's actually a very good person hence my worry. He perhaps inadvertently made that entire demographic look better XD