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In reply to the discussion: A couple of years ago, I was personally responsible for starting a lot of OPs on Zimmerman [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I'm alerting.
The world needs more lerts.
Consider the scenario without race (Imagine there are no races, it's easy if you try...)
Person A is on top of person B whaling away. How is it NOT self defense if person B shoots person A? I sure would if I was person B in that scenario (and if I had a gun, which, of course, I wouldn't be so lucky as to have a gun). Wouldn't you?
Of course, the scenario is deeper, since person B was "the mad follower". Since he was following person A, he clearly deserves to get his ass kicked and thereby has ZERO right to self defense.
That makes no sense either.
It is sad to me, how logic seems to fly away once race is added to the mix. At least for some people. At one point Ta-Nehisi Coates and Charles Barkley were "Zimmerman defenders". (Coates later abjured his earlier opinion, or at least contradicted it).
But it is just like an INTJ to expect humans to be reasonable, when they clearly are not.