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pavil
reply to post by yampa
Still waiting for that evidence I asked for.........
matafuchs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....because polar bears knock out prey with one punch...You must be on Rev Al's payroll to come up with some lame garbage like that. I can cite articles from as far back as 08 on the web. This is nothing new. Here is an article from 2010 and it is also listed in the Urban dictionary.
undo
reply to post by yampa
oh i get it now!
they are deliberately not letting it be seen as a hate crime against white people unless they are jewish, and they are doing that, because they want us to be mad at some poor jewish guys who have nothing to do with this craziness.
yeah, well, kiss my shiney white hiney.
undo
reply to post by yampa
no, i have been pondering this for awhile now and trying to determine the motive. if it's against a jewish person it's ruled a hate crime. but if it's against, say a scandanavian or other non-jewish person then it's not a hate crime. so this will inevitably incense people who already are prejudice against jews, to assume it's a jewish plot to end white folks. yeah it took me a while to figure that out. i'm glad i did.
not gonna happen, sorry charlie.edit on 24-11-2013 by undo because: (no reason given)
Please reread articles, others have been arrested and charged. Just simply because a hate crime isnt charged doesnt mean its does not have a racial component. Please provide recent examples of non blacks playing the knockout game agaist total strangers.
yampa
What evidence are you asking for? I'm not claiming anything at all. I'm *rejecting* the assertions of the OP because of no evidence aside from the one case you found of a 28 year old foreigner from a couple of days ago.
Again just because a race crime isnt charged doesnt mean it wanst a racial attack. The vast majority of attacks are on non blacks, explain the descrepecy then? Your lame blowoff of the term polar bear hunting is telling. It doesnt have to be a hate crime, but they are for sure targeting "polar bears", you look it up. They people doing these attacks came up with the name, fo ask them what it means.
You are saying that 'knock out' is almost exclusively a hate crime, ie, racially motivated. You've provided a quite a few examples of 'knock out' assaults, but only one example of proof of racial motivation.
yampa
undo
reply to post by yampa
no, i have been pondering this for awhile now and trying to determine the motive. if it's against a jewish person it's ruled a hate crime. but if it's against, say a scandanavian or other non-jewish person then it's not a hate crime. so this will inevitably incense people who already are prejudice against jews, to assume it's a jewish plot to end white folks. yeah it took me a while to figure that out. i'm glad i did.
not gonna happen, sorry charlie.edit on 24-11-2013 by undo because: (no reason given)
A black person assaulting a white person is not a 'hate crime'/racially aggravated assault. I understand that people like you think it should be, but I'm afraid in the real world, you have to provide additional evidence of racial motivation.
You don't have the additional evidence. But that isn't stopping you, because you're a bigot.
Actually as someone who has both played in the game and been targeted for the game, I can tell you that it isn't 100% racially motivated.
the evidence tends to indicate that most of these cases are, indeed, racially motivated. Hell, even the apologists in this thread defend the perpetrators on the basis of racial motivation.
white people are usually viewed as the easiest target.
To go deeper into why white people are so often targeted. It's a notion that white people won't and sometimes can't fight. This makes them easy targets. Though not all white people. White people who grow up around and associate with black people for some reason adapt our athleticism and aggressiveness. They basically know how to take care of themselves and aren't targets.
*On another note, perhaps studies should be done on why white people who grow up around and hang with black people can run and jump as well as us.*
Lost my focus...
my point is, anyone appearing to be an easy target can be targeted. Even other black people.
Remember, if things did happen as George state, which I highly doubt, he was nearly done in by a scrawny, 17 year old kid.
However you are neglecting my point that racism is what created the beast.
I make no excuses for them and would shoot one
It irks me to see all these people yelling about "see that's why EVERYONE should carry a gun" when that would have no effect
OpenMindedRealist
reply to post by yampa
1. Your comments make it crystal clear that you have absolutley no idea what racial attittudes/behavior are like in the US. What you do 'know' is fed to you by biased media.
2. Those who chastise others for not believing in false truths only succeed in shaming themselves.
3. There's a reason your posts in this thread are not being starred. Actually there are several.
OpenMindedRealist
reply to post by yampa
Let me get this straight -- because no one here has the time/desire to fully inform you on a complex, controversial, sociological issue in a country of which you lack understanding, we are all bigots?
If you are from the UK, your forebears would be ashamed by your grasp of logic.
yampa
I'm not asking for your opinions, or what you believe to be the sociological causes. I'm asking you to provide journalistic, legal or academic evidence proving that 'knock out' is primarily racially driven.
“We would not be silent if it was the other way around. We cannot be silent or in any way reluctant to confront it when it is coming from our own community," he said. “Kids are randomly knocking out people [from] another race—some specifically going at Jewish people."
Source
“Random acts of violence, particularly when targeted at people on the basis of race or religion, will not be tolerated,” Jeffries said at the conference at the Crown Heights Youth Collective. “If you violently participate in the knockout game, we will do everything in our power to make sure that the criminal justice system is there to knock out socially unacceptable behavior.”