It also really annoys me when people refer to the Charleston killer as “a kid.”
The man is 21 years old. Let’s stop pretending he’s some confused little child.
He’s Not a Kid
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It also really annoys me when people refer to the Charleston killer as “a kid.”
The man is 21 years old. Let’s stop pretending he’s some confused little child.
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People keep trying to excuse him. He’s a kid, but 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a man. The unnamed 14-year-old who was slammed into the ground by a grown-ass cop while at a pool party in McKinney, Texas was referred to as a woman. I swear, assigned responsibility has nothing to do with actual responsibility here.
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Exactly. They look at Michael Brown and see “not an angel. ” They look at this mass murderer and see “a kid.” Something is hugely wrong with their vision.
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\ They look at Michael Brown and see “not an angel. ” They look at this mass murderer and see “a kid.”
It could be a powerful Internet meme: their photos and subtitles “18-year old … teen … not an angel” and “21-year-old … a kid.”
Even many progressive people say things without paying attention to their biases.
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Precisely. There is nothing accidental about the ways we use language.
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It’s already something that’s been said many, many times in many variants. I’m sure as I speak someone is making a Michael Brown/Dylann Roof meme to share on social networks.
Michael Brown v. Tsaernev Who is a kid?
http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/98761/media/Michael%20Brown/10636063_883787201632259_6356749312075352309_n_zpsceb4f32d.jpg.html>Loughner v. dude v. Michael Brown Who is a thug?
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http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/98761/media/Michael%20Brown/10636063_883787201632259_6356749312075352309_n_zpsceb4f32d.jpg.htmlLoughner v. dude v. Michael Brown Who is captured alive v being killed?
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It’s because of that haircut…
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White People, Have It Your Way: Cops Bought Dylann Roof Lunch At Burger King
White Privilege Part 564: When police arrested evil white boy Dylann Roof for the slaughter of nine people, they bought him a burger – he was hungry – before giving him a bulletproof vest and a gentle hand into a cruiser. When police arrested Freddie Gray for walking down the street while black, they flung him headfirst into a van before giving him a rough ride and severed spine that killed him.
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2015/06/23/white-people-have-it-your-way-cops-bought-dylann-roof-lunch-burger-king
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Oi, just noticed that the article I linked calls Roof “white boy,” not “white man.”
And, I checked and Freddie Gray was a career criminal, so he wasn’t arrested for “walking … while black.” Not that it makes police behavior right, of course.
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“Oi, just noticed that the article I linked calls Roof “white boy,” not “white man.””
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\ It’s everywhere, just everywhere.
May be, it’s also because he truly looks very young on his mugshot?
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To me he looks like a degenerate, to be honest. Of course, I realize that I’m probably just projecting my feelings about him on the photos. But others are projecting, as well. I have no doubt that if he stopped any of the folks who call him “a boy” in the street and tried to steal their wallet, none of them would see him as all that childish.
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