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In reply to the discussion: Silence Makes White People Racist [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)Those "words on paper" are what established and guide our democratic republic, and cannot and will not be dismissed when they prove inconvenient to your or others demands.
You implication that those who disagree with you about the Zimmerman verdict don't "give a crap about humans" is highly offensive and self-righteous rubbish. People can believe Zimmerman acted badly or stupidly, or even was a racist, and still acknowledge that the state failed to meet the burden for criminal guilt. The system sometimes works even when you don't like the ultimate results.
The way I "give a crap about humans" is by demanding that everyone, even those I don't like or who are actually terrible people, are guaranteed due process and are not punished because of emotions, preconceived notions or generalized distaste for a group, but rather only after their guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt with admissible evidence.
The "lawyerly ones" apparently annoy you because we will not be silenced or dismissed by vague claims of moral superiority or emotional suffering. We demand that you identify the specific deficiencies of the system you purport to hate, explain how you would improve it while actually maintaining fundamental democratic principles and notions of due process, and show actual evidence how the system failed or the verdict was unsupportable. We do not first state our belief in guilt and then demand and expect the system to comply.
You advocate for the justice of the mob, at least so long as it agrees with you.
And, to the extent you did not already know, I'm actually a practicing trial attorney. Some of my career and much of political activism was and is currently devoted to ensuring minority defendants, mainly young males, actually received adequate due process and fair and proportional sentences. I simply refuse to be a blatant hypocrite about these essential rights when a defendant is unsavory. If you do not understand this, you should study the work of the ACLU.