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Cali_Democrat

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Mon Nov 25, 2013, 10:41 PM

Nov 2013

Did you get those stats yet indicating how the knockout game is spreading across the country?

Or are you still looking?

I'm sure you've tried the conservative sites.

Keep looking.

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The "knockout game" is yet another white panic racial myth. Stop spreading it. [View all] Recursion Nov 2013 OP

"Knockout Games -- The Biggest Form of Cowardice" - Reverend Al Sharpton Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #1

Good statement from him. 840high Nov 2013 #5

This isn't a crisis. If it has become popular it is only because the media makes it so. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #7

LOL. Give it up, Nye Cali_Democrat Nov 2013 #9

Well, at least I didn't commit the cardinal sin of citing the New York Post (nt) Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #14

LOL Cali_Democrat Nov 2013 #15

I don't know about the stats but we have had several cases in Orthodox Jewish areas where people hrmjustin Nov 2013 #28

all has to do with an absurd book White Girl Bleed Alot PatrynXX Nov 2013 #25

I was one of probably three people who voted for Sharpton in the 2004 primaries... Recursion Nov 2013 #13

Now people are stealing old episodes of CSI? Kids today - no creativity. tjwash Nov 2013 #30

Recommended. NYC_SKP Nov 2013 #2

Color me surprised. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #3

Some real rascals have been spreading that crud along with their remedy - more friggin gunz. Hoyt Nov 2013 #4

I don't get the link to guns. AtheistCrusader Nov 2013 #32

I agree completely. But, some of the irrational gun guys think that's the solution. Hoyt Nov 2013 #40

If anyone ever knocks me out with a shot to the balls, please... AtheistCrusader Nov 2013 #41

No joke. I hope never to experience that pain again. Hoyt Nov 2013 #42

Here's the Matt Yglesias article that led me to the Wegel piece Recursion Nov 2013 #6

A black guy on TeeVee said it was real so it must be. last1standing Nov 2013 #8

What is it they want Obama to do? DearAbby Nov 2013 #10

I fell for this when it first came out. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #11

Filed along with blogslut Nov 2013 #12

I guess this is a myth too. Beacool Nov 2013 #16

"The problem is very real" -- what does that even mean? Recursion Nov 2013 #17

Not like this. Beacool Nov 2013 #18

It's true that before social networks, criminals didn't post to social networks Recursion Nov 2013 #19

Look, I'm not going to argue with you. Beacool Nov 2013 #20

Well thanks for nothing for ruining a perfectly good "IT'S ALL A MYTH!!!!" thread (nt) Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #37

1974 University of Illinois Midnight Writer Nov 2013 #21

I'm sending you a link by PM to a horrible "news article" that proves your point. NYC_SKP Nov 2013 #22

it is being spread by the right just like benghazi and all the other right wing outrages JI7 Nov 2013 #31

Total scaremongering. AtheistCrusader Nov 2013 #34

As Jimmy Breslin explained Midnight Writer Nov 2013 #23

This is ridiculously irresponsible of you Orrex Nov 2013 #24

Way back during Antebellum... MrScorpio Nov 2013 #26

Thanks for putting it in context. Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #38

Unfortunately this Jamaal510 Nov 2013 #27

I ignored it as the same kind of thing everyone's JoeyT Nov 2013 #29

Don't forget "check under your car!" Recursion Nov 2013 #35

A white guy was convicted four days ago of a similar attack in the UK... shaayecanaan Nov 2013 #33

Nightline is leading tonight with a segment on the knockout game. Beacool Nov 2013 #36

It's unfortunate, but there are a lot of good points in this article. AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #39

'Knockout King' in 2011 FrodosPet Nov 2013 #43

I saw a guest on cable news advise people to cross the street to avoid groups of young black men pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #44

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2013 #45

If we're allowed to talk demographics around this, are we allowed to talk geography as well? Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #46

St Louis is west of the Mississippi FrodosPet Nov 2013 #47

Touche. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #48

This message was self-deleted by its author Nye Bevan Dec 2013 #49