Can someone explain this to me?
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All involved were African American; not exactly a demographic known to be of the "Red State" persuasion. [^] Maybe no one helped because her male companion (who vanished before help arrived) said she needed none. Or maybe because they knew the store clerk had called police already.
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I guess the issue here is that LaShanda was black.
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fat_boy wrote:
I guess the issue here is that LaShanda was black.
I didn't then and still don't now give a fuck about her colour, my issue is with the stupid fucking name she has.
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All involved were African American; not exactly a demographic known to be of the "Red State" persuasion. [^] Maybe no one helped because her male companion (who vanished before help arrived) said she needed none. Or maybe because they knew the store clerk had called police already.
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Rob Graham wrote:
All involved were African American
I don't get it, why is the ethnicity relevant? :confused:
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K(arl) wrote:
why is the ethnicity relevant?
Why is 'red state' relevant?
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K(arl) wrote:
why is the ethnicity relevant?
Why is 'red state' relevant?
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While I have no answer for what has happened, I have a question of my own to ask the masses here. The victim's name is LaShanda while the assailant is named Cherish. What the fuck is going on nower days, do parents grab a handful of scrabble letters and throw them on the floor to make a name while others read a dictionary. A good friend of mine named their daughter Destiny late last year, I couldn't say it for the first 6 months. It's a fucking word not a name. People wonder why some children grow up to bash their parents, have a look at some of their names. They shouldn't just be let off the charges some should be rewarded for bashing morons.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
Back in the '80s, among the trailer trash crowd, the name 'Misty Dawn' was very popular. Every other girl baby you met was named 'Misty Dawn'. It drove me crazy. The African-American community is notorious for giving their kids fabricated names like LaShanda. I worked for a guy once who named his baby girl 'Kindling' (like the small bits of wood you burn to start a fire) because his wife and he had seen that name on the name tag of a waitress at some truck stop and liked it. Whatever happened to just naming kids after people in your family - or repsected public figures. That was a wonderful tradition. -- modified at 9:25 Wednesday 4th July, 2007
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I don't remember writing it was, so you should ask the people who seriously say so.
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K(arl) wrote:
don't remember writing it was, so you should ask the people who seriously say so.
You're in the middle of a thread that started with it. Yet you did not seem to be motivated to respond similarly to that generalization.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Don't you think that is a bit much. Since this incident clearly happened in a black community within Wichita, would you be as willing to make such a generically negative comment about them, as about the US itself?
You can misconstrue that as a general comment on the U.S./black community if you like. I simply meant it in the context of why this woman was left there and ignored. I lived in the U.S. for only a brief period of time, thus you would be more qualified than myself to generalize that statement.
The only reason this story is being blasted around the internet is precisely because it happened in some small, heartland, US community. That would not be so if it did not feed into the 'oh, look how fucked up the US is" mentality. But when someone points out that well, gee, everyone involved is black, so how about generlizing about that? It suddenly becomes taboo. It is one of those stories that reveals a lot about the nature of discourse in the modern world.
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Woman left to die on shop floor [^] SHOPPERS in a US convenience store stepped over a woman dying from stab wounds with one stopping only to take a picture on a mobile phone.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Can someone explain this to me?
the loss of the communal sense of being your brother's keeper.
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No :nausea: Doesn't the offence of "non-assistance to a person in danger" exist in the US?
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K(arl) wrote:
Doesn't the offence of "non-assistance to a person in danger" exist in the US?
We don't need it. 99 times out of a hundred, assistance of some type would have been rendered. But those incidents would never make it past page three of the local paper precisely because they are so common. Only the uncommon story gets attention.
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Rob Graham wrote:
All involved were African American
I don't get it, why is the ethnicity relevant? :confused:
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Tim's partisan assertion that Kansas being predominately a conservative (Red/Republican) state explains the behavior becomes nonsense if the participants are African American, as they tend to vote Democratic/Left/Blue as a block. But then Tim blames conservatives for every evil there is.
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Woman left to die on shop floor [^] SHOPPERS in a US convenience store stepped over a woman dying from stab wounds with one stopping only to take a picture on a mobile phone.
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A couple of interesting observations: 1. searching for the title on your link results almost exclusively in Australian and Malay archipelago newspapers. The absence of US and European (paricularly the latter) seems surprising. 2. the byline to the aticle is "From correspondents in Wichita, Kansas". Now just how likely is it that an Australian News organization would have regular correspondents in an American backwater like Wichita? Seems a disingenuous way to say "some bloggers sent us this". Why not give the original writers credit? Something closer to an original source...[^] 3. Wichita's most recent claim to fame is that it is the home of the serial murderer known as BTK (Bind-Torture-Kill).
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The only reason this story is being blasted around the internet is precisely because it happened in some small, heartland, US community. That would not be so if it did not feed into the 'oh, look how fucked up the US is" mentality. But when someone points out that well, gee, everyone involved is black, so how about generlizing about that? It suddenly becomes taboo. It is one of those stories that reveals a lot about the nature of discourse in the modern world.
Pardon Libby!
When I saw the story last night there was no mention of the names or colour of the people. I saw it on CNN online. Think and accuse me of whatever pleases you. I don't expect any rational behaviour on this message board.
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A couple of interesting observations: 1. searching for the title on your link results almost exclusively in Australian and Malay archipelago newspapers. The absence of US and European (paricularly the latter) seems surprising. 2. the byline to the aticle is "From correspondents in Wichita, Kansas". Now just how likely is it that an Australian News organization would have regular correspondents in an American backwater like Wichita? Seems a disingenuous way to say "some bloggers sent us this". Why not give the original writers credit? Something closer to an original source...[^] 3. Wichita's most recent claim to fame is that it is the home of the serial murderer known as BTK (Bind-Torture-Kill).
It was all over CNN online last night.
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A couple of interesting observations: 1. searching for the title on your link results almost exclusively in Australian and Malay archipelago newspapers. The absence of US and European (paricularly the latter) seems surprising. 2. the byline to the aticle is "From correspondents in Wichita, Kansas". Now just how likely is it that an Australian News organization would have regular correspondents in an American backwater like Wichita? Seems a disingenuous way to say "some bloggers sent us this". Why not give the original writers credit? Something closer to an original source...[^] 3. Wichita's most recent claim to fame is that it is the home of the serial murderer known as BTK (Bind-Torture-Kill).
Rob Graham wrote:
A couple of interesting observations: 1. searching for the title on your link results almost exclusively in Australian and Malay archipelago newspapers. The absence of US and European (paricularly the latter) seems surprising. 2. the byline to the aticle is "From correspondents in Wichita, Kansas". Now just how likely is it that an Australian News organization would have regular correspondents in an American backwater like Wichita? Seems a disingenuous way to say "some bloggers sent us this". Why not give the original writers credit?
news.com.au is owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News. It, or at least the newspaper outlets it represents, has been owned by Murdoch for over 40 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Limited[^]
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It was all over CNN online last night.
No surprise. CNN International (and sometimes CNN US) seems to share in the general delight at opportunities to highlight disappointing behavior in the US. That tendency earned it the nickname "Communist News Network" among some.
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K(arl) wrote:
don't remember writing it was, so you should ask the people who seriously say so.
You're in the middle of a thread that started with it. Yet you did not seem to be motivated to respond similarly to that generalization.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Yet you did not seem to be motivated to respond similarly to that generalization.
Because of the ":laugh:" that clearly indicated it was a joke. What I think about generalization: First, I disagree when individuals are reduced to be a subset of a community when the "community factor" is something you cannot choose, as the skin color or the native land (for instance "Americans are stupid"), . Next, I disagree when the generalization is IMO unfair: for instance "all god believers are fanatics" . However, when it is justified, I don't see the problem with generalizations, like for instance "conservative are all ugly selfish dwarfs responsible for everything bad in the World".
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K(arl) wrote:
Doesn't the offence of "non-assistance to a person in danger" exist in the US?
We don't need it. 99 times out of a hundred, assistance of some type would have been rendered. But those incidents would never make it past page three of the local paper precisely because they are so common. Only the uncommon story gets attention.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
But those incidents would never make it past page three of the local paper precisely because they are so common. Only the uncommon story gets attention.
So it's common people are stabbed to death? :omg::wtf:
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Stan Shannon wrote:
But those incidents would never make it past page three of the local paper precisely because they are so common. Only the uncommon story gets attention.
So it's common people are stabbed to death? :omg::wtf:
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Assisting someone who needs assistance is common. :rolleyes:
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When I saw the story last night there was no mention of the names or colour of the people. I saw it on CNN online. Think and accuse me of whatever pleases you. I don't expect any rational behaviour on this message board.
I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm just making a comment about the nature of the discourse. If this had not been something that could be used to promote a generally negative image of the American heartland, it would not have been so widely publicized. Color obviously was purposefully kept out of the story because, well, gee, that would just be so racist and all. But promoting a negative stereotype of Americans in general (meaning white folks) is perfectly acceptable. That is a throughly reasonable and rational observation.
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