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I need to stay off of Facebook. I know I say that a lot but I am trying. Anyhow, I am clearing through "friends" whom I never liked in the first place from the Ferguson debacle. I have even come up with an exception list, mostly from people who argue that it's possible that Michael Brown was in the wrong and that the shooting was justified that I have known for long enough and don't AUTOMATICALLY assume that everything that the Ferguson police department has put out is gospel.
I can rationally argue in that case that it's still not the role of the Grand Jury to convict Wilson. It's only to weigh the evidence to see if there is enough for an indictment.
But that still leaves the people who post articles stating that Michael Brown went for the gun, that he was charging at the officer and then claim to be not racist. Racists really hate it when you call them racists.
So one racist woman posted that kind of article and said "for everyone who is claiming that this is 'racist'!" I did the usual acerbic response "oh yeah, Michael Brown reached into the car and totally went for the gun..." and then stated the main reasons why she was racist.
I then noticed (as I was de-friending her) that her son is dark skinned. She's married to one of those Sephardic Jews so it's not a surprise. So I said that she should pray that when her dark skinned son grows up to be a teenager that the cops don't mistake him for black.
The point was that she would not be quite so cavalier to dismiss charges of institutional racism if it was HER son who was in danger of being harassed and killed by cops.
They missed the point. They missed the point badly.
The reaction was "how dare I insult a toddler" - by calling him black. Yep, this woman who claims to be "not racist" is so insulted that anyone would think that her son could be BLACK that she is having a hissy fit. And apparently all of her friends are reacting with the same wounded feelings. A mutual friend said that it would seem insulting and maybe I should apologize (for insinuating that a child could be black) and then a weird crazy woman (who might be a 12 year old girl with a cell phone) came to attack me for DARING to insinuate that a child is black.
What's amazing is that no matter how many times you point out that stating that a child looks like a black child is ONLY insulting if you are a fucking racist, it seems to not sink in.
Racists hate being called racists.
I can rationally argue in that case that it's still not the role of the Grand Jury to convict Wilson. It's only to weigh the evidence to see if there is enough for an indictment.
But that still leaves the people who post articles stating that Michael Brown went for the gun, that he was charging at the officer and then claim to be not racist. Racists really hate it when you call them racists.
So one racist woman posted that kind of article and said "for everyone who is claiming that this is 'racist'!" I did the usual acerbic response "oh yeah, Michael Brown reached into the car and totally went for the gun..." and then stated the main reasons why she was racist.
I then noticed (as I was de-friending her) that her son is dark skinned. She's married to one of those Sephardic Jews so it's not a surprise. So I said that she should pray that when her dark skinned son grows up to be a teenager that the cops don't mistake him for black.
The point was that she would not be quite so cavalier to dismiss charges of institutional racism if it was HER son who was in danger of being harassed and killed by cops.
They missed the point. They missed the point badly.
The reaction was "how dare I insult a toddler" - by calling him black. Yep, this woman who claims to be "not racist" is so insulted that anyone would think that her son could be BLACK that she is having a hissy fit. And apparently all of her friends are reacting with the same wounded feelings. A mutual friend said that it would seem insulting and maybe I should apologize (for insinuating that a child could be black) and then a weird crazy woman (who might be a 12 year old girl with a cell phone) came to attack me for DARING to insinuate that a child is black.
What's amazing is that no matter how many times you point out that stating that a child looks like a black child is ONLY insulting if you are a fucking racist, it seems to not sink in.
Racists hate being called racists.
