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

Brendan O'Neill is the editor of spiked, an independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms.

i read that and then closed the tab

lol

let me guess

misanthropy = feminism
priggishness = feminism
prejudice = non-whites esp black people
luddism = the unemployed
illiberalism = liberalism
irrationalism = lived experience

Not really, he's nominally "left wing" but his articles have always been about juvenile trolling.

He's going to get a ticket for failing to disclose the use of a firearm in self-defense.

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omfg lol forever also wth

dying

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The concept album will be great.

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hood watch feat. rick ross

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Breaking: AP reports "a law enforcement official" says Zimmerman in custody, to be charged with 2nd-degree murder

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good

awesome.

This is wonderful news.

yes.

did this little thinkpiece from Debbie Downer Alan Dershowitz make its way onto this thread yet:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/opinion/dershowitz-trayvon-prosecutor-nightmare/index.html

This special prosecutor sounds relatively sharp.

Many people would be unhappy with such a mixed outcome, but it is not the job of the law to make people happy.

I lol'd

today, the law is making me happy

rest of the time: good job, law, on not doing what is not your job

kinda don't wanna know what douchewitz thinks the law's job actually is tbh

I hope he enjoyed that three weeks of freedom. Dude in <i>25th Hour</i> only got like 25 hours

yeah but don't expect George to ask his best bro to make him ugly so he doesn't become an assclown in prison

God did that work for him.

is that what "assclown" means?

here's hoping he doesn't join the kl4n in jail

I don't really see what's so bad about what Dershowitz said in that piece. I mean he's basically right - we could wind up with a situation where the physical evidence directly cuts against Zimmerman's account, or we might not, in which case it's his version of the story (and whatever physical evidence) and some hazy eyewitness stuff versus some other also a bit hazy eyewitness stuff and 911 phone calls that are missing key parts of the story. Burden to indict is supposed to be relatively high and to convict even higher.

I didn't say there was anything wrong with Dershowitz's piece, just that it was depressing

nothing's wrong with the piece itself. A great deal is wrong with Dershowitz the person tho.

this is gonna be just like oj can't wait

The very least I was hoping for was an arrest, i.e. some institutional acknowledgement that there may have been some wrongdoing in the killing of an unarmed kid. The trial could still be a travesty, but at least Zimmerman's actions are going to actually be judged.

he should hire casey anthony's lawyer since he was so good that one time

The trial could still be a travesty, but at least Zimmerman's actions are going to actually be judged.

I hope you mean this in the literal sense.

if this trial ends in acquital or a lesser charge but in the process we've "outed" the stupid stand your ground law as unworkable, some justice will have been done no?

dershowitz is a horrible horrible man but that article was reasonable.

seems like everyone was prepping us for manslaughter charges, this is awesome

MURDER WAS THE CASE

it's a weird vibe to be pulling for the prosecutor in a case suffused with racism but here we are

Would have been weirder had it been first degree, which would make Zimmerman eligible for the death penalty, but the 2nd degree charge dodges that bullet, so to speak.

Props to the crazy, racist asshole for having the balls to turn himself in. It could have gone so many different ways, and often does, especially in Florida.

prob safer to turn himself in tbh

Fleeing the country on a murder charge when you're in the heart of the media and millions know who you are is probably not a good look one way or another.

it's a weird vibe to be pulling for the prosecutor in a case suffused with racism but here we are

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:40 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah funny to see the right going to bat for a criminal suspect too

tbh i just want a fair trial, whatever that means or results in