George Zimmerman Acquitted, Satire Not Yet Possible
George Zimmerman has been found not guilty of second degree murder in the February 26, 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin.
There’s eventually going to be plenty of idiotic stuff that will be said about this by the usual people — Tucker Carlson’s Internet Dry Heave ‘n’ Dogwhistle Repository is undoubtedly writing most of Wonkette’s content for the coming week at this moment — but for right now, we’re feeling more than a little sick to our stomach. Wingnuts have been spending the last few weeks salivating over the prospect of riots in the wake of a not guilty verdict; let’s hope that they end up disappointed. Already tonight, we’ve had the obscenity of Zimmerman’s defense attorneys playing the role of Sore Winners, calling Zimmerman’s prosecution “disgraceful” and claiming that if George Zimmerman had been black, he “never would have been charged with a crime,” which are certainly comments worth mocking, once we’re finished being nauseated at them.
It’s America in 2013, and 6 Florida jurors just said it’s OK to kill a black 17 year old if you’re really scared of black 17 year olds. And now we’re going to have another wave of triumphal gun-buying.
We’re speechless, so here are a couple of links to people who are able to say something coherent about all this. Cord Jefferson at Gawker has this:
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