Right, I get that. But what does that have to do with the knockout game? And @Forbin, I don't watch Fox, no idea who these people are, or the color of their skin. My statement regards toe words on the transcript.
Hardly surprising. Anybody who pays attention to crime stats would see that there has not been an increase in street assaults, which pretty much gives lie to the idea that this is a rampant problem. As I said before, this is about good art. Now some of the angst published by Fox seems to indicate that it's also about racism in mass media. But remember folks, if it isn't actually happening with any significance, it's not a problem, nor are any of the interpretations about black culture or calls for statements by Sharpton et al remotely meaningful.
It's no urban myth. Just Google the damn thing and you and see cases going back to 90's even the 80's. The difference between then and now is that a lot of it has happened in a short time period and has caught the medias attention and like the media usually does it blows it up to be something bigger then it is or might be. It's like the shark attacks in Florida. One year one kid got killed and one kid got injured and you would have thought the sharks were storming the beaches. The media was in a frenzy. But in the previous year there had been more attacks. It just wasn't something that caught the media's attention until two kids were the victims.
Right, the argument isn't that it doesn't happen, just that it isn't the safety crisis some would imply.
Exactly. The myth is that there is something unusual or newsworthy going on. Isolated seemingly random assaults have always happened and there's simply nothing to indicate any kind of an uptick in such assaults or that there's suddenly a new well organized game nature tying together broad numbers of such assaults. There is no crisis, no indication of any meaningful change to the status quo.
I'm going to install the knockout app on my phone and get going with this. It's gonna be bigger than foursquare is with the hipsters! I read there are bonus points earned if you can become mayor of an alley.
I think it serves as a commentary on the situational ethics and outcries of injustice. It also shows how excuses will be made for such behavior. Meanwhile were any other ethnicity the prime practitioner of this "game" there would be howls of outrage and no excuses would be permitted. Regardless of the time period in which this game has been played, be it a recent phenomena or old hat that is getting play now because the media is bored, it is still a safety issue when one punch can and has killed victims.
When you sneak up on someone and hit them full force with all the leverage in the world, it can very well prove fatal, especially if you are young and strong and your victim is not.
Not you. Im talking about the comments by West about the miraculous silence by the poverty pimps and what is being said are excuses and rationalizations that have been reported.
I'm not sure why those guys should be expected to comment, though. What's their interest in the topic? Why is it something that specifically demands a statement from one of them?
That's my point exactly. They are ready to hurl invective and start unrest when it is politically advantageous to them, but as others have said so often, when it comes to real issues and self reflection they are amazingly mute on these issues. Instead, at best, they deflect and say that society and economics are to blame.
But why is this an issue for them, as opposed to say, an issue for Rick Warren? Who at Fox is demanding action or words from him?
Seriously, why does anyone even bother commenting on the poverty pimps / race baiters? Everyone with their head no firmly planted in their own ass knows what they are and where they will show up. It's kinda like complaining the KKK is racist...the reply is basically "ummm yeah...and?"
They're criticising Sharpton and Jackson because, when a white person hurts a black person, even if it's in self-defense, they go apeshit and stir up the rabble to riot-causing proportions. But when black people hurt white people for FUN, they remain silent. If they consider themselves leaders of the black community, they should be speaking up and condemning this behavior as being harmful to said black community - "confirming" that racially profiling young black men as violent and dangerous may be valid. Not speaking up just confirms to the world that those two are not "civil rights leaders", rather nothing but self-serving, race-baiting opportunistic rabble-rousing glory hounds.
I'm not sure why somebody would see this idiocy through a racial lens, that's what I'm not getting. Is there an epidemic of blacks knocking out whites that somehow didn't change crime stats?
Rule of thumb: If Sean Hannity's using it to boost his retweets, it has a 94% probability of being nothing more than
To be fair, something like school shootings has a similar dynamic when discussed by the media. Violent crime is on the way down in this country and has been for a while.
Let's not forget that with the ever increasing prevalence of video cameras on every corner, plus with the proliferation of cell phone cameras, it's much easier to find a video of people doing stupid shit. Stupid shit that has been going on for years. "Shocking" footage can be found anywhere and hyped to ridiculous levels.
It's a sad fact of the time in which we live. Reminds me of the Inherit the Wind quote, "Fella, you can hold the sum of human knowledge in your hand, but you have to sift through every damned stupid piece of information that comes along." I'd like to kick Ted Turner square in the nuts for inventing the 24-hour news channel.
Not as much as you think and not for the reasons you think. People have made much of the drop in the numbers of murders. But if you really want to look at rates of violent crime don't look at murders but at aggravated assaults. Much of the much ballyhooed decline in the murder rates over the years is that thanks to better medical centers, cell phones, and the rise of local trauma centers, many people no longer die from violence that a couple of decades ago would've proven lethal. Another big reason is that we have something like one million more people in prison today that 30 years ago. Condemn America as "incarceration nation" but the facts are that those in prisons tend to be ones who has committed or would've committed violent crimes.
Wow... I would've liked to participate in this thread, but it took any ugly turn and became an occasion for the usual suspects to express their disdain for young urban blacks due to sensationalized media. Of course this is a terrible thing, but it's extremely rare and not all of the perps are black and not all of the victims are non- blacks... At the time when Greta van Sustren asked where is Al Sharpton, of course he was out there denouncing the attacks as detrimental to the community... You know... Cause most the victims were black... But the reason no one knew is because it didn't fit Fox News or Allen West's narrative they needed to pimp. Any google search would've revealed that. Grow the fuck up.
Well, I was just reacting to the sudden splurge on news stories on CNN, Fox and the net. So, further information noted and accepted, Alphaman.
Shame on you if you're expecting Dayton not to make shit up. The only links that boy will follow are sausage links.
