UK Reaping the Joys of Diversity.....Playing the Knock Out Game on a 16 Year Old Girl

If it wasn't on video, probably none at all (if fact statsitically that must have happened at some point in time).

If the races in this incident had been reversed and everything else was the same, I'm sure some aspects of our media would be reacting differently (though maybe not as significantly differently as you might imagine). That would be wrong though (like most things our media do). I'm sure you and northwinds would be reacting (or not reacting) differently too and if someone else posted about how it showed that all whites are cowardly thugs, you'd be with me challenging them.

None of that is anything close to as important as the human being lying unconscious on the pavement (she luckily avoided serious injury and is recovering at home, not that you asked).

 

I think it's possible that the 16 year old girl could have called him a n***** off camera and this was just a tit-for-tat exchange that we witnessed. So if you think about it, the girl deserved it.

 

Why do you suppose the media would be acting differently if the races were reversed? Isn't that a problem? Shouldn't they report on these stories regardless of the race of the attacker? Why would they advertise stories with white attackers and downplay (or completely ignore) stories with black attackers? What are they hoping to achieve?

 

I am absolutely certain that will be the perps defense.....and in the 1984 style society the UK has created the victim will, in all likelihood, be prosecuted for some sort of thought/speech crime. Coming to the U.S. just a soon as certain folks can find a way around that pesky first amendment...

 

You're the "I don't know, perhaps, maybe" squishy guy. Why bother at all?

 

Fence sitters believe they are morally superior and more intelligent.

 

In cases like this I believe it should be up to the parents of the girl what is suitable for punishment. And if proven guilty (which would happen) then the sentence of whatever should be carried out.

If it was my Princess, my punishment would be - my daughter would decide... and if she chickened out - I would cut off the hand that he hit my daughter with and pickle it and keep it in my living room...

 

Than you... Yes... That is a correct statement...

 

Does the Government pay you to surf the web?

 

the knock out game needs to be a new felony, 20 years min... time to end this "game"

 

Hahahaha!! Perhaps.....

 

Lord knows how many years the Nanny State would imprison you for playing criminal justice system without their permission.

 

Now, we are talking.

 

There's a good idea. Your reaction indicates you watched the video and were sickened by it. I hope more liberals do the same.

 

Nope... You do!!!! So, pay your taxes like a good Republican and I will be able to embarrass you daily!!

 

It's a huge problem, though probably not the one you're thinking of. Most of the media today isn't about reporting the news, it's about making money - selling papers, getting viewers and, ever more, getting webpage hits. It's basically all adds up to more advertising revenue. That leads them to focus less on what is true and more on what their audience already thinks is true (because things that are different or unexpected are scary).

Pretty much all of us are discriminatory to some extent, though mostly only subconsciously. That still means that we react differently to stories about people like us compared to stories about people who are not like us. That doesn't only involve race of course, which is why city newspapers have more stories about city people and stories about international disasters have headlines like "3 Brits Injured in Tsunami". As horrible as it sounds, we really are more interested in people like us with minor injuries that thousands of foreigners killed or homeless.

All this influences how the media reports incidents like the one we're talking about where the national media, with a largely white audience, will take a subtly (these days) different angle depending on the races (ages, nationalities, occupations, education...) of the people involved. As I said, it's wrong but that doesn't stop it being true.

I noticed you skipped the bit where I suggested that Don and northwinds would be reacting differently too. That I don't understand.

 

Birds of a feather, Joe, that's why.

 

Always refreshing when left-wing do-nothing Government employees are honest about their parasitism.

 

So I'm understanding you correctly, white on black crime stories are interesting to the mainstream audience, but black on white crimes are not, and that is why there is a discrepancy in the reporting of each. This, however, seemingly conflicts with your point about tailoring the stories to match the white majority audience. Why would a white audience care more about a white on black attack than a black on white attack?

It seems like you are acknowledging that a white on black story is more out of the norm, and is therefore more newsworthy, thanks to it being a "tail wags dog" story. Black crime is so common that it's "dog wags tail", which isn't newsworthy. Is that what you are saying?

They may or may not, but that's irrelevant to the point I'm trying to make.

 

This is why we had segregation. Not to punish blacks but to protect whites.


Black people almost killed Abraham lincoln when he was young man. The irony.

 

I consider myself liberal, and yes I do believe this was a hate crime. Hate crimes happen on both sides.

 

Yep, whites segregated in the post-civil war years to protect themselves and their families from this type of nonsense.....when they did brush up against blacks, and nonsense like this happened, they took the law into their own hands and dealt with it swiftly and summarily. The mantra in today's media is that whites just ran rampant in the South looking for blacks to lynch. The reality is the South was left destitute after the Civil War and whites tried their best just to set up a society to stay away from blacks so that incidents like this didn't happen.......not a lot of folks get up on Saturday morning and decide to get together with a bunch of buddies a lynch someone....on the other hand, when one of your friends daughters just got raped and her head beat in by a bunch of blacks....then it was time to ride (see Forsyth County, Georgia in the 1930s)

 

Sorry, I wasn't clear on that aspect. Articles like this are about the criminal, not about the victim. They shouldn't be of course but that's the reality. Reading about violent crime brings a thrill, reading about victims is just depressing and frightening. That's why there are lots of films about criminals and police but few about victims of crime (unless they're going out for revenge).

There could well be an aspect of that perception (accurate though often exaggerated). Anything considered out of the ordinary give stories more significance - a priest being mugged is a "bigger" story than you or I being mugged for example. This is all very much about image and perception than any kind of reality though. The media will make use of disparities in crime statistics but they'll rarely do anything as boring as trying to understand them.

My opinion is that in this case, the extreme on such a vicious, unprovoked and pointless attack is really the focus, highlighted because it's on video. For British viewers at least, I'm not convinced a reversal of the races would be all that significant. To American eyes, race appears to be given much more significance.

 

All of the resident racists flocked to this thread as expected. I always know were to find you guys.

 

Beat me too it. How very predictable of the same old people. Without any evidence of this being a black > white hate crime, it is identified as one by the OP and the rest of the board racists jump all over it.

The stupidity of some people is mind boggling.

I would have thought these people would have complained about the 1984esque camera which caught the crime... big brother was watcvhing afterall, but when it suits them, government survelance is fine..