Race

4 entries. 981 words.

September, 2017

• Behind The Tweet: Outrage. 2017-09-12 11:14 PM.
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  Saw this tweet come through Tweetdeck: UPDATE: To be clear, I don’t follow that account. It was retweeted. “Everyone should be outraged,” it said. About what? I hovered over the link and found the title of the story: “New Hampshire police refuse to discuss apparent lynching of biracial boy.” That is the correct way you should respond to questionable tweets in your feed. Note that at no time did I click any part of the tweet. I did not retweet it, I did not click the link. 498 words.

October, 2017

• Followup: Outrage. 2017-10-03 12:41 AM.
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  • swampip.com
  
  Remember that alleged lynching of a bi-racial kid in New Hampshire? Periodically I’ve been Googling for new information, because you may recall I applied my superpowers of skepticism to that story and found it didn’t pass the smell test. I’m not sure I consider Newsweek to be the most journalistic of sources, but here’s an interview with the parents of one of the alleged attackers. And here’s an ABC News story with more detailed information from all sides (the photograph did indeed come from Facebook). 132 words.

November, 2017

• Pizza? Really?. 2017-11-02 2:59 PM.
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  • swampip.com
  
  People fight for their lives every day in some corners of the world, and kids on the Internet the last few days are like, “I’m putting my foot down for justice and taking a stand against racism! No more Papa John’s pizza!” I had literally no idea what fresh insanity had come over my Twitter feed. It turns out Papa John’s had a bad quarter and lost a bunch of money, and Mr. John blamed the down turn on the recent NFL protests. 191 words.
• Texas Shooting. 2017-11-05 11:14 PM.
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  • swampip.com
  
  I don’t have anything to say about this, just noting it for posterity. Up to 27 killed in mass shooting at Texas church https://t.co/EmySBP97Nu — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 5, 2017 Sources: TX church shooter now ID'd by authorities; white male in his 20s from outside San Antonio. w/ @PierreTABC @JackDate @AaronKatersky — Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) November 5, 2017 Everything that I’ve previously written about mass shootings applies here as well. It’s very easy to tell the, ahem, racial identity of a mass shooter by watching the tone of Left Twitter versus Right Twitter following a shooting. There is a period of hushed silence before the identify of the shooter is determined, then there is an explosion from one side or the other. 160 words.