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Banned
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christ.../the-knockout-game-myth-and-its-racist-roots/
".......Flaherty regularly stacks and exaggerates the evidence (also see here, or here, or here).
Colin Flaherty and his project have been cited repeatedly to support the claim that the “knockout game” is really about racial violence against whites. He’s been cited to this end not just in far-right publications like WND, or FrontPageMag, but in the National Review Online, one of the most respected conservative journals, and one that I like to recommend. His conspiracy is extremely racist, as Flaherty reduces everything down to the color of the criminal’s skin, regardless of the facts. He consistently distorts the truth in order to portray black people as the savage, animalistic, and Other.
We need to be honest and accurate about these crimes, neither sharing the hysteria and racial fear-mongering nor trivializing the reality of these crimes. This isn’t easy to balance. We have the right to be concerned about random violence and the authorities have the responsibility to protect us and prosecute violent criminals. But we also have the responsibility to tell the truth about our neighbor and the world."
Further resources:
For more on this “trend,” I highly recommend John H. Tucker’s longform piece from 2011 and this interview with Dr. Jeffrey A. Butts.
Right Wing Nuts are the only ones stirring the pot of racial animus. Too bad the only ones believing this racist propaganda are white racist Neanderthals, who cannot think for themselves, and subscribe to the mindless rantings of Fox News, WND, and the like. -poet
".......Flaherty regularly stacks and exaggerates the evidence (also see here, or here, or here).
Colin Flaherty and his project have been cited repeatedly to support the claim that the “knockout game” is really about racial violence against whites. He’s been cited to this end not just in far-right publications like WND, or FrontPageMag, but in the National Review Online, one of the most respected conservative journals, and one that I like to recommend. His conspiracy is extremely racist, as Flaherty reduces everything down to the color of the criminal’s skin, regardless of the facts. He consistently distorts the truth in order to portray black people as the savage, animalistic, and Other.
We need to be honest and accurate about these crimes, neither sharing the hysteria and racial fear-mongering nor trivializing the reality of these crimes. This isn’t easy to balance. We have the right to be concerned about random violence and the authorities have the responsibility to protect us and prosecute violent criminals. But we also have the responsibility to tell the truth about our neighbor and the world."
Further resources:
For more on this “trend,” I highly recommend John H. Tucker’s longform piece from 2011 and this interview with Dr. Jeffrey A. Butts.
Right Wing Nuts are the only ones stirring the pot of racial animus. Too bad the only ones believing this racist propaganda are white racist Neanderthals, who cannot think for themselves, and subscribe to the mindless rantings of Fox News, WND, and the like. -poet
