YOUR HIGHER MORALITY

[fpb]

Well, I suppose all my friends are right. We do need Zimmerman lynched. We are in need of a lynch mob unleashed by short and fraudulent media summaries to rip a man who has been judged innocent by a jury of his peers and hang him on a tree on the reports of MNBC and the rest. Because journalists never would lie and always understand everything that is going on, and are in fact fountains of virtue and sagacity, and we may confidently hate those whom they tell us to hate; whereas the jury that has spent weeks being exposed in detail to everything that could be retrieved of the facts are too stupid, ignorant and racist to make the right choice. We need more demos. We need more shouting. We need more threats.

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[stahlhelm.livejournal.com]

I really don't give a fuck about Trayvon Martin. He was pounding a guy's head into the concrete. Provoked or not, Martin escalated what could've been a merely verbal misunderstanding into lethal force. Zimmerman ended the threat. And this is merely going off the evidence we have.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I agree. But what is appalling about Martin is that he represents the waste of a whole generation, perhaps two, in idiotic macho dreams and looseness of every kind - from loose language that almost consciously neglects the dignity of English to scattershot giving birth here and there just to produce more ill-suited numbers. And I doubt it's only among blacks; I have seen exactly similar attitudes and behaviours over here, at least, among the shattered and defeated remnants of Britain's former working class. And that is not Martin's fault: he'd have had to be a kind of hero to escape an environment that is so bad and destructive in every way.