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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:32 AM Jan 2015

What's wrong with this picture? Discuss.

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What's wrong with this picture? Discuss. (Original Post) MrScorpio Jan 2015 OP

One of them is a minor jberryhill Jan 2015 #1

I'll start: she's shown in a smiling, angelic-like high school photo KittyWampus Jan 2015 #2

Media glamorizing thug life? Catherine Vincent Jan 2015 #3

"Bonnie and Clyde" romanticized in print and film. There would be no fucking way Luminous Animal Jan 2015 #4

It should be called a "Charles-Starkweather-and-Caril-Ann-Fugate-style" spree? cyberswede Jan 2015 #5

That was my thought. Starkweather, or Mickey & Mallory, the "Natural Born Killers". . . Journeyman Jan 2015 #9

"Badlands" was based on them, too. cyberswede Jan 2015 #10

if it was a black couple the word SWEETHEARTS would be nowhere to be seen Skittles Jan 2015 #6

I don't know that teenage black sweethearts have ever gone on such a rampage. . . Journeyman Jan 2015 #7

/thread. JaneyVee Jan 2015 #8

You see black people rampage, white people have sprees Johonny Jan 2015 #18

The winning answer n/t malaise Jan 2015 #21

I saw this Contrast earlier on the Obama Diary, Mr Scorpio.. It's disgusting.. Cha Jan 2015 #11

Thread winner! nt MrScorpio Jan 2015 #12

Pardon my modesty but I figured it was a Cha Jan 2015 #13

bingo! napkinz Jan 2015 #15

I'm glad you saw it, napkinz.. unbelieveably disgusting. :( Needs to be more exposed. Cha Jan 2015 #16

NBC ''News'' DeSwiss Jan 2015 #14

kick napkinz Jan 2015 #17

These "sweethearts" aren't "thugs" because they are white. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #19

She's 13 and he's eighteen? malaise Jan 2015 #20

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

1. One of them is a minor

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:36 AM

Jan 2015

And news organizations don't typically post pictures of juvenile offenders.

Also, there is a problem with the "sweethearts" sobriquet, since she is 13.

But since that info is not included in your post or the tweet itself, I figure I have not won the contest here.

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)

2. I'll start: she's shown in a smiling, angelic-like high school photo

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:36 AM

Jan 2015

-if she were black the news would have dug around for the most unflattering pix they could find.

Catherine Vincent

(34,486 posts)

3. Media glamorizing thug life?

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:38 AM

Jan 2015

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)

4. "Bonnie and Clyde" romanticized in print and film. There would be no fucking way

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:39 AM

Jan 2015

that if they were anything but white that they would be characterized as "Bonnie and Clyde".

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

5. It should be called a "Charles-Starkweather-and-Caril-Ann-Fugate-style" spree?

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:39 AM

Jan 2015

I'm probably missing something obvious...

Journeyman

(15,024 posts)

9. That was my thought. Starkweather, or Mickey & Mallory, the "Natural Born Killers". . .

Reply to cyberswede (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:55 AM

Jan 2015

a film loosely based on Starkweather and Fugate's spree.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

10. "Badlands" was based on them, too.

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #9)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 02:04 AM

Jan 2015

Martin Sheen & Sissy Spacek. Oddly compelling movie.

Skittles

(153,111 posts)

6. if it was a black couple the word SWEETHEARTS would be nowhere to be seen

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:43 AM

Jan 2015

Journeyman

(15,024 posts)

7. I don't know that teenage black sweethearts have ever gone on such a rampage. . .

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:49 AM

Jan 2015

but this is not the first teenage white couple to so terrorize the roadways.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

8. /thread.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:51 AM

Jan 2015

Johonny

(20,818 posts)

18. You see black people rampage, white people have sprees

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 08:54 PM

Jan 2015

malaise

(268,693 posts)

21. The winning answer n/t

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 09:08 PM

Jan 2015

Cha

(296,830 posts)

11. I saw this Contrast earlier on the Obama Diary, Mr Scorpio.. It's disgusting..

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 02:05 AM

Jan 2015

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/16/a-tweet-or-two-211/

MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)

12. Thread winner! nt

Reply to Cha (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 02:12 AM

Jan 2015

Cha

(296,830 posts)

13. Pardon my modesty but I figured it was a

Reply to MrScorpio (Reply #12)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 02:27 AM

Jan 2015

sure thing..

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

15. bingo!

Reply to Cha (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 03:28 PM

Jan 2015

thanks for sharing, Cha

Cha

(296,830 posts)

16. I'm glad you saw it, napkinz.. unbelieveably disgusting. :( Needs to be more exposed.

Reply to napkinz (Reply #15)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 06:21 PM

Jan 2015

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

14. NBC ''News''

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 04:07 AM

Jan 2015

- The Peacock Network

While Jamie Steals ---OH-----LOOK---IT'S---BONNIE&CLYDE---->

K&R

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

17. kick

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 08:47 PM

Jan 2015

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

19. These "sweethearts" aren't "thugs" because they are white.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 09:03 PM

Jan 2015

IF they were black, they'd be "thugs" on a murderous crime spree, not "sweethearts" oin a "Bonnie and Clyde style crime spree".

malaise

(268,693 posts)

20. She's 13 and he's eighteen?

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 09:07 PM

Jan 2015

This will end real bad

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