re: #33 SanFranciscoZionist

It is known, as the Dothraki say.

Had a really hilarious encounter with a guy at RawStory. He posted, feverishly, a link to a story that he described as being about two black men beating two white men with hammers—and, just to show us libs, one of the victims was a ‘white Hispanic’, and the other was Jewish. This proved something about Trayvon Martin, I’m not sure what.

Problem was that, upon arriving at his link, you couldn’t help noting that there was only one victim, whose name and race was not being released, and the ‘Hispanic’ and ‘Jewish’ names he’d noted were those of the perps, who, as I pointed out to him, had also been arrested for their crime, which was all anyone was actually asking for in the Martin case.

This is the problem with these guys. They frame this as an argument about who is the ‘good race’ and who is the ‘bad race’, and seem indifferent to any suggestion that the actual discussion is about law enforcement.

The poor reading comprehension of many Americans is probably the greatest threat to America, especially when combined with a lack of embarrassment and glib, superficial charm. Shame and pride in one’s mind together can be very useful tools for self correction, without them willful ignorance becomes a virtue and being shown how undeniably wrong and backwards one processed some piece of information has no lasting impact on the structural problems that caused the error. There’s no desire not to repeat the mistake.