2016 Postmortem

Garrett78

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8. I was listening to an NPR interview of a Somali immigrant in Ohio...

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 09:32 PM

Dec 2016

...following the incident at Ohio State. The interviewee was being asked to explain why it is that 2 Somalis (from different parts of the US) had committed terrible crimes in recent months. The interviewee was quite polite. I would have said, "When's the last time you interviewed a white person in order to have that person speak for all white people in response to multiple white people committing the same sort of crime? Oh, you never have? Not once? Well, fuck off then."

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Must-read New Yorker essay: 'Now is the time to burn false equivalencies forever' [View all] Me. Dec 2016 OP

hear, hear! nt. Stellar Dec 2016 #1

K & R ...... nt Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #2

Link does not go to article quoted. n/t TygrBright Dec 2016 #3

It Goes To Kos Front Page Me. Dec 2016 #4

Thanks, that's what I was looking for anyway. n/t TygrBright Dec 2016 #6

If the journalist was on NPR, those people are afraid of their own shadows BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #5

I was listening to an NPR interview of a Somali immigrant in Ohio... Garrett78 Dec 2016 #8

Well said BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #11

Sure thing. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #12

Brilliant! mcar Dec 2016 #7

I urge everyone to read the article in its entirety. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #9

Thanks For Posting Me. Dec 2016 #10

KnR Hekate Dec 2016 #13

K&R BSdetect Dec 2016 #14