The one thing that can't be "obvious" is that I am "looking for a reason, any reason, to find Zimmerman guilty of something." It can't be obvious, because it isn't true: I have thought there was something wrong with his following Martin, which he did against the advice/wishes of the dispatcher to whom he was speaking on the phone at the time, from the first I heard of it. He wasn't even on duty as a member of the neighborhood watch that night. It struck me as stalker-ish (or harrasser-ish) and trouble-making.
And when an aggressive bully whom I am actually following asks me whether I am following him, I'll be rightly terrified, but what other answer would I have but "yes"?
I suppose the only reason I am "usually not this ridiculous" is that I hardly ever comment on current events or politics online. My trouble with Zimmerman is rooted in larger political views, but not racist ones and not, I think, knee-jerk political correctness. It's my general opposition to guns and vigilantism.
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Date: 2013-07-19 06:38 am (UTC)And when an aggressive bully whom I am actually following asks me whether I am following him, I'll be rightly terrified, but what other answer would I have but "yes"?
I suppose the only reason I am "usually not this ridiculous" is that I hardly ever comment on current events or politics online. My trouble with Zimmerman is rooted in larger political views, but not racist ones and not, I think, knee-jerk political correctness. It's my general opposition to guns and vigilantism.