Let's talk about Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and how unbelievably fucked up this all is

says the guy commenting on ILX

touche!

*slurp*

this doesn't really feel like the internet somehow

^^ honeymoon phase

i mean, someone did call me a "worthless human being" on here today. that felt like the internet.

in general though i love this place. i can just type my opinions about stuff and most of the time i'll get a thoughtful response.

fuck you

haha

jk

yeah but that dude is a douche treeship

yeah I guess I've just lost my sense of humor wrt this bullshit. enough is enough. where are the FEMA camps we were promised?

i mean, someone did call me a "worthless human being" on here today. that felt like the internet.

If that person got paid to call you that you should call mom. Otherwise, you're doing OK

true. that brings me to another point i have about ilx though: when am going to start getting paid?

just be grateful those donation drives only happen once a year!

there's an ILM joke around here somewhere ...

that no-face "in orbit" made at me upthread has been haunting me .... what did it even mean?

She is from MI

Lol I was thinking about c+p/re-posting that

oh. thank you. xp

makes me realize how senselessly i stumble through the world ... oblivious to those i might be harming ...

(maybe there's still a way to excise that part of MI containing the nuge though.....)

Lol I was thinking about c+p/re-posting that

― Drugs A. Money, Friday, July 19, 2013 5:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

misread this as 'crepeposting' and was amazed at the coinage

You can go ahead and credit me w that anyways

God I hadn't read the inevitable Nuge comments
Really hope that guy dies

He's coming to Cleveland next month, you want me to arrange something?

That Nugent thing is kind of surreal, although he's always been openly racist (despite his love for Howlin' Wolf), hasn't he?

Trayvon Martin viciously attacked him causing great bodily harm and threatening his life

Is the medical examiner a race-baiter too?

Also, has any of GZ's defenders commented on why shooting TM to death was necessary for him to be able to defend himself, as opposed to e.g. just showing TM his gun or firing a warning shot?

How skeptically did the prosecution examine Zimmerman's claim that Martin was "reaching for [Zimmerman's] gun?" How would Martin even have known that Zimmerman HAD a gun?

Huh, thought this thread would be bumped by now

posting this here just cause it took me a minute to find the full text,

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/obama-talks-about-trayvon-in-surprise-speech.html

well that's only going to fan the flames of white outrage

yeah twitter has been a treat for a while now

lol i typo'd that as "for a white now"

well that's only going to fan the flames of white outrage

― the late great, Friday, July 19, 2013 2:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when it comes to the flames of white outrage, Obama's mouth might as well be a bellows

the most racist president in all of history

just to go back to the comments box thing, i am half-convinced some of these comments box voter are bots. i was looking at the anti-obama comments on cnn.com and some of them are going up by three votes per second. i sort of doubt that many people are looking at the cnn/com comments.

Caleb Bonham @CalebBonham 10m
Why did the Lord give such a divisive man the amazing gift of communication. Barack, use ur gifts to unite, stop dividing #TrayvonMartin

@DanRiehl: If you ever had any doubts, Obama is the first Racist in Chief

when will obama stop being racist

Time for a li'l fireside chat about PROJECTION.

when it comes to the flames of white outrage, Obama's mouth might as well be a bellows

― Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Friday, July 19, 2013 2:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbc, I mean from the point of view of white outrage. like nothing this he could say would be perceived otherwise

people are fucking idiots

obama needs an awesome GIF of communication to calm the white rage

Speaking of.

What a nation of imbessils...

it is hardly fair to call him the most racist, he's only the most racist because he's the first racist president

I think the single most salient thing this points out to me, a middle-aged white guy, is that the first rule of white privilege is 'never be wrong'. Even if you have to double-down on racism to prove that you're not racist, it's your right and duty to do so. Every single white-hot, pissed off commentator out there is missing the fact that the President, apparently an adult, called for respect for the verdict and some national soul-searching. How is that not conservative? Rational? Patriotic? Decent?

^Stand Your Ground.

ie., the legal doctrine has its own intellectual analogue.

any true statement that makes a white person somewhere uncomfortable = "race-baiting"

reminding others that non-white people exist = "racist"

i also sense in all this a really striking roll-back of some what has served as one of the more fundamental aspects of moral existence: the effort (impossible, imperfect) to put oneself in another's shoes, to imagine for a moment the world as it might be perceived by another person, from a different perspective.

the "reasonable man", a concept consonant with the enlightenment, was always highly problematic in its application, but at least it upheld a pretense of objectivity (itself a problematic concept, duh). now, i'm not sure there's even a pretense. the "reasonable man" as applied in stand your ground cases has become a solipsist, encased in his own universe, "reasonably" obeyant to his own paranoias and prejudices. Hallucinations and motes in one's eye now justify slaying someone in self-defense. Who needs a panopticon when all that matters is what's in your head?