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86. Perhaps the most EXTREME form of

Reply to HiPointDem (Original post)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 12:06 PM

Jul 2013

victim-blaming I have ever seen!

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How is it that a teenager doing nothing but walking home from the store is now implied to be the [View all] HiPointDem Jul 2013 OP

Zimbo should at least have been wearing his badge Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #1

he should carve it in his forehead like charles manson HiPointDem Jul 2013 #2

Perhaps he could be branded with an M instead Orrex Jul 2013 #11

How exactly is it that you know that's what he was doing? FBaggins Jul 2013 #3

Why do we need to know that? Hissyspit Jul 2013 #7

We don't FBaggins Jul 2013 #15

Until we know otherwise (which apparently we won't ever) Hissyspit Jul 2013 #19

Both TM and GZ were and are innocent until proven guilty. There is a saying.... Honeycombe8 Jul 2013 #31

That has nothing to do with what I was arguing with the poster about. Hissyspit Jul 2013 #34

Good answer, Honeycombe 7962 Jul 2013 #56

Martin is dead, he is not innocent or guilty. Rex Jul 2013 #85

Apparently it means something new FBaggins Jul 2013 #33

"For all we know... he was up to something." Hissyspit Jul 2013 #35

Exactly FBaggins Jul 2013 #39

Who said anything about the trial? Hissyspit Jul 2013 #41

You did FBaggins Jul 2013 #50

No, it also applies in people's BRAINS. Hissyspit Jul 2013 #51

Nope FBaggins Jul 2013 #53

Well, we do know what was going on at and immediately before the shooting, don't we? Honeycombe8 Jul 2013 #42

All I see is evidence of a kid trying to defend himself and failing... Humanist_Activist Jul 2013 #48

What? Hissyspit Jul 2013 #49

Did he approach Zimmerman's truck? Did he?? TNNurse Jul 2013 #9

YES!! Punkingal Jul 2013 #28

Now the streets of Florida are safe from Skittles spills. God bless America! world wide wally Jul 2013 #37

This is what I'd been thinking too, TNNurse mike dub Jul 2013 #58

What do you think he was doing? Orrex Jul 2013 #12

Obviously I have no idea FBaggins Jul 2013 #16

Why would you have been suspicious? Orrex Jul 2013 #20

Because they had several recent breakins FBaggins Jul 2013 #29

So even though you say you "obviously" have no idea what he was doing... Orrex Jul 2013 #32

Again... does the word mean something new today? FBaggins Jul 2013 #38

It means that you're arguing in favor of profiling Orrex Jul 2013 #46

Nope FBaggins Jul 2013 #52

I didn't mention his race either. Orrex Jul 2013 #57

Again... Nope FBaggins Jul 2013 #62

Reported by whom? Zimmerman? Sorry, but that's hearsay Orrex Jul 2013 #64

Well... no. That word means something too. FBaggins Jul 2013 #74

Hearsay is unverified information Orrex Jul 2013 #75

Nope. FBaggins Jul 2013 #76

Nope Orrex Jul 2013 #79

Reply FBaggins Jul 2013 #80

Hmm... Orrex Jul 2013 #81

So why wouldn't Trayvon not be concerned that EC Jul 2013 #36

Who says he wasn't? FBaggins Jul 2013 #45

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2013 #44

For your post to make sense, Zimmerman would have had to know everybody that lived in the ET Awful Jul 2013 #54

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2013 #59

Please, tell me how Martin would have known that Zimmerman was the neighborhood watch arcane1 Jul 2013 #70

Can you explain how he did not fit the demographics, polly7 Jul 2013 #72

There are white people in Englewood all the time and no one follows them Chisox08 Jul 2013 #65

You have no idea what he was doing yet you would have been suspicious. City Lights Jul 2013 #21

Is the word new to you? FBaggins Jul 2013 #30

Why would you have been suspicious? n/t Humanist_Activist Jul 2013 #26

He was doing what almost EVERYONE these days, does.. SoCalDem Jul 2013 #82

oh, 'ignore' is here. just go the hell away. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #4

Childish FBaggins Jul 2013 #5

Yes you are. 99Forever Jul 2013 #17

"I know you are but what am I?" FBaggins Jul 2013 #22

At precisely your level. 99Forever Jul 2013 #25

Only in America does a dead black boy have to defend himself in his own murder trial n/t Blackford Jul 2013 #6

+1 gollygee Jul 2013 #10

+10 RC Jul 2013 #67

and this jury gave Trayvon Martin the death penalty KurtNYC Jul 2013 #83

Remember to teach the kids! RandiFan1290 Jul 2013 #8

I hope you don't mind. cali Jul 2013 #13

Welcome to the new age Jim Crow fasttense Jul 2013 #14

Thats not really a large difference, 14% 7962 Jul 2013 #61

good article, except that gz was NOT a neighborhood watch captain. niyad Jul 2013 #47

New threat? invrabbit Jul 2013 #18

It appears so, doesn't it? City Lights Jul 2013 #24

I live in a neighborhood full of kids like Trayvon Siwsan Jul 2013 #23

Should have been a manslaughter conviction Joey Liberal Jul 2013 #27

White society implicitly believes... Deep13 Jul 2013 #40

Oh horse poop! All of "White society?" nt Duckwraps Jul 2013 #43

Yes. Deep13 Jul 2013 #60

More blacks are in jail because of stupid, worthless drug laws, IMO. 7962 Jul 2013 #63

+1000 nt Duckwraps Jul 2013 #68

I don't know that those figures are true, even if you did get them from FBI. Deep13 Jul 2013 #69

It is very hard to get a job with a prison record 7962 Jul 2013 #77

Please don't hang your own prejudicial guilt on other people you don't even know. nt Duckwraps Jul 2013 #66

I grew up thinking MLK was about the greatest person who had ever lived. Deep13 Jul 2013 #71

Yes I completly understand. Still, please don't project your feelings onto others though, Duckwraps Jul 2013 #78

If I listened to you... Deep13 Jul 2013 #84

K & R ctsnowman Jul 2013 #55

I know Shankapotomus Jul 2013 #73

Perhaps the most EXTREME form of tblue37 Jul 2013 #86

There's a relentless propaganda machine at work over this. ananda Jul 2013 #87