>It's sad to see people trying to rationalize denial or obstruction of this issue, for example by throwing up endless questions (I'm commenting on these issues

>It's sad to see people trying to rationalize denial or obstruction of this issue, for example by throwing up endless questions (I'm commenting on these issues in general, not necessarily this specific report) It's not sad. It's understandable. It's problematic that we're at a point where we predicate what should be objective discourse on emotion, rather than facts and observations. There are those, such as yourself who we can charitably assume, mean well. But on the other hand you have things like Ferguson, Mo. hijacking countless cognitive cycles, where from all the evidence it is clear that any sort of grave injustice was essentially invented out of whole cloth. Then you have a seemingly constant drum beat of news reports of so-called 'hate crimes' that turn out to be hoaxes.[0] All this is occurring in an environment of constant policing of the "facts that must not be named," which is that there are groups in the US that commit violent crimes at a rate that is widely disproportionate to the country as a whole. Those groups aren't poor whites, or rich whites. People's skepticism and questions are quite understandable. [0] http://fakehatecrimes.org/ http://fakehatecrimes.org/ What's interesting about these so-called hoaxes, is that they themselves are hate crimes. For example if a hoaxer invents a scenario where a white commits a 'hate-crime,' the hoaxer them self is committing a hate crime against whites by portraying whites as a whole in a despicable false light.