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> The thing that makes this special is that the man killed was white From https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/ https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynching
by mieseratte 7y ago
> The thing that makes this special is that the man killed was white
From https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/ https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/
> Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched.
Would not appear that being white and lynched are not necessarily unique, though perhaps for the time period.
- pazimzadeh 7y agoMany of those whites were probably black-sympathizers who would have been called n*-lovers or "black on the inside."
- faissaloo 7y agoAlso 'coalburners' for the women who married/slept with black men
- n1ght 7y agoYou must know a thing or two about that, how bizarrely off topic.
- mieseratte 7y ago> Many of those whites were probably black-sympathizers I'm sure some were. Would be great if we had more information.
- neaden 7y agothe rest of my sentence was important too, I don't really appreciate you cutting it off to pretend I said something I didn't.
- liability 7y agoSurely you don't really believe that of the 1,297 white people lynched, all were innocent. His point remains then, there is no shortage of guilty white men getting lynched in American history. Lots of white murderers and rapists got lynched, sometimes after they were convicted in court, by mobs who were impatient or particularly enraged.
- neaden 7y agoSpecial doesn't mean unique. This is the second time you've engaged in bad faith with what I've said.
- mieseratte 7y agoSo what is special to mean here? Uncommon as to be noteworthy? Based on what data? It is also worth pointing out you assume the man is guilty and deserving of death, but this is arbitrary lynching. Even our most heinous deserve their day in court. Innocent until proven guilty is more than a multiple choice test answer.
- liability 7y agoI'm pretty sure that's the first time I responded to you, but whatever... If you concede that it's not unique, what makes you think it's special? I don't feel as though you are making a good faith effort to express your ideas clearly, and are instead choosing to nitpick the precision with which people paraphrase your argument.