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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 07:20 PM Jan 2017

Where is the outrage??? It is always the poor white guy...

2 of them raping a black handicap young man No news media No public outrage NOTHING ....

White high school football players 'raped disabled, black teammate with a coat hanger, stripped him naked on a bus and forced him to sing a Ku Klux Klan song'
Teenager claims he was sexually assaulted by three football teammates
Boy, 18, was allegedly held down while they raped him with a coat hanger
Allegations emerged in $10million lawsuit filed by the teenager's family
Lawsuit claims student was called 'n*****', 'chicken eater' and 'watermelon'
Teammates allegedly stripped him on a bus and made him sing KKK song
Black teenager also claims he was beaten unconscious at a training camp
John Howard, 18, Tanner Ward, 17, and a 16-year-old are charged with sexual assault


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3608814/White-high-school-football-players-raped-disabled-black-teammate-coat-hanger-stripped-naked-bus-forced-sing-Ku-Klux-Klan-song.html#ixzz4V1i7gAwr

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Where is the outrage??? It is always the poor white guy... (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2017 OP
I'm ashamed to be white. nt WhiteTara Jan 2017 #1
I know what should happen to those monsters. niyad Jan 2017 #2
There was massive amount of outrage here about this story. romanic Jan 2017 #3
That the outrage was not national, like the current outrage of the day is. pbmus Jan 2017 #4
Blame the media. romanic Jan 2017 #5
Both were mentally challenged... pbmus Jan 2017 #6
Still classless, bigoted, etc. romanic Jan 2017 #8
Treatment of black suspects v white suspects is not the same... HipChick Jan 2017 #9
OK SQUEE Jan 2017 #7

romanic

(2,841 posts)
3. There was massive amount of outrage here about this story.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 08:02 PM
Jan 2017

What are you trying to prove here?

ETA: the one-upmanship of tragedies on this board drives me up the fucking wall! God help humanity, we will never fucking learn to have empathy for others if it gets in the way of our bigoted beliefs and narratives.

romanic

(2,841 posts)
5. Blame the media.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 08:08 PM
Jan 2017

And your "poor white guy" remark is classless, ableist and bigoted. The man was mentally disabled for fucks sake.

romanic

(2,841 posts)
8. Still classless, bigoted, etc.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 08:15 PM
Jan 2017

Both victims in both cases did not deserve what happened to them. Race plays a factor in how it was covered in the national media obviously, but I'm not going to get my jollies by comparing traumatic incidents to score social justice points about the inequalities of coverage.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
9. Treatment of black suspects v white suspects is not the same...
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 08:23 PM
Jan 2017

Not in the media or the justice system...the white suspects got off with probation...

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