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In reply to the discussion: Sometimes it really, really, really sucks to be right. [View all]maced666
(771 posts)This is like predicting someone is going to unwrap a present on Christmas morning. An estimated 150 million people in this country were going to do some shopping Thur-Sun. Give or take a mil - any activity involving that many people will result in some type of crime or sadly even a death.
The mythical 'black-on-white knockout game', more accurately defined as street crimes, has resulted in several actual deaths - but I see no one outside of t-baggers and companions in the M$M claiming we have an epidemic of blacks attacking whites. Sporadic, random crime used as a tool for white RW hate.
NO difference between these two over-reactions other than the teens assaulting innocent pedestrians have a higher body count - and about 149.9999999999+ million fewer participants.
Not murder, but the partial enslavement of tens of thousands of workers (plus) by Walmart and others - that is the crime effecting most during holiday season. (referring to the forced Thanksgiving hours) Yes, threatening people with their jobs and health security for their low-wage jobs unless they abandon partners/wives/husbands/children and extended family on a holiday is, beyond reason/holding someone against their will for labor.
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One death over stolen property is no joke but it happens every day multiple times. That is happens (so far) just once on the busiest shopping day of the year is not a Nostradamus moment for those opposed to a sale holiday.