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The link you posted said that a lot more black people were lynched than white people and also that many of the white people lynched were lynched for just helpin
by tdb7893 7y ago
The link you posted said that a lot more black people were lynched than white people and also that many of the white people lynched were lynched for just helping black people. It really makes it sound like it was primarily racially motivated
- mieseratte 7y ago> It really makes it sound like it was primarily racially motivated Were most lynchings? The numbers and history sure make it sound that way. 'rolltiide also has a point, that to take things as one giant pile of numbers masks regional variations. That and I don't know why people need to shoe-horn race relations into every article they can. It's not as if lynching is a long untold story, though maybe I'm slanted having spent time in the south where it is a well known facet of history.
- rolltiide 7y agoI didn't refute that from my summary, I pointed out additional aspects that are also in the article Is it inaccurate for me to point out that the same study says some states had mostly white lynchings [that therefore may have had nothing to do with helping black people] Is it inaccurate for me to say that it wasn't rare enough to consider it a novelty?