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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
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.
Yup, those are the faces of finding out. What they did was monstrously evil, threatening to kill kids because they weren't the white colour. I imagine he's probably realizing as well that he's going to be beaten a lot in jail for this. Given the incarceration rate of PoC being higher there's going to be a welcome for him he'll regret if they don't immediately put him into solitary confinement. His life isn't just ruined, he may very well die in prison.
The woman has fully disassociated at this point, she's just got the "going through the motions" look of someone who had the worst news of their life handed to them and don't know how to process it.
her prison experience will be a lot different then his.
Good points. And they aren't wrong if you look at how the country has changed negatively since Trump brought racism and hatred back.
brought back is a bit generous, if not naive... he heightened it though for sure; created a permission structure.
I assume this is a historic post and not anything that's happened recently.
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.
Don't give this too much attention or Trump will pardon them.
If it's state charges he can't pardon them. He only has federal pardon powers.
The face of a man who has had his privilege card revoked.
😢 But I just wanted to be racist...
😭 The woke won't let me be racist!!!
Ah don't worry, they'll get a pardon for heroic acts of anti wokeness or something
State charges are not able to be presidentially pardoned, although if it's a red state the governor may just do it to capitulate.
“Armed and threatening to kill”
That adds an entirely worse facet to it than the initial text lets on.
Video of the flag convoy https://youtu.be/lu1GjHAiHZg
For two days, the couple and the nearly dozen others waved the flags while aboard pickup trucks and targeted their slurs and threats at black families in counties outside Atlanta.
In Douglasville, the couple, among others, reportedly yelled racial slurs at the birthday party’s attendees as they drove by. Torres also threatened to kill the people at the party with a shotgun Norton had loaded and retrieved from his truck, the district attorney’s office said in a statement on Facebook.
This happened 10 years ago, and they were sentenced 8 years ago.
I really dislike how twitter screenshots never have date stamps in them. Makes things look recent when posted.
Shits wild tho. Fuck those people.
Those pictures show frustration with the punishment in the same way a toddler does. These people are messed up.
And ppl say that women are emotional.
they are crying because they got caught, not because they felt guilty. its literally like how BRIAN "apologizes" to stewie
After watching countless interrogation videos, they are not only crying because they got caught. They are also crying cause they are going to jail and that their life is ruined now. If sentence would not be incarceration, they'd be happy and with a smile. It is always "am I going to jail?" rather than an actual sense of guilt.
"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!"