- 13 Apr 2012 09:13
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The article you linked here is very hard to follow, but it apparently relies on the idea that Trayvon Martin made it back to where he was staying and then left again to confront Zimmerman, without dropping off what he had picked up at the convenience store... seems like quite the stretch to me.
This site also includes stories like "Was Trayvon Martin a drug dealer", "Did Trayvon Martin Referee School Fights", "F****** Cold", etc... usually your sources seem to be of a higher quality than this
Rei Murasame wrote:I'm actually wondering if it was really such a grand idea for every single rightist group in the English-speaking world to come out swinging with ethnic violence discourse on this Trayvon Martin case. To me it simply feels like it's one of those scenarios where there is no glory in victory, and ignominy in defeat.
This is chiefly because no matter what the final outcome is, it is a situation where both parties misunderstood each other at the beginning, and so it will always carry an aura of "what if someone had made a different choice" about it, which is extremely hard to dispel.
So if we come out too strongly on this, we will all look like a collection of assholes at the end.
Furthermore, the fact that Trayvon Martin was so young, causes people - including myself - to imagine what it might be like if you had a child and that happened to him or her. It'd be devastating.
No matter what, this story is eventually going to be renamed the "Trayvon Martin Tragedy", or some such thing, and centre-left liberals will add it like a trophy to their mantelpiece of tragic outrages, and there will be absolutely no way that we'll be able to prevent them from doing it.
The best we'll be able to get is a narrative about "Trayvon Martin senselessly threw his life away" (which to me looks like what happened). There is no chance that Zimmerman will ever be able to be portrayed as some righteous hero, nor will Martin ever be able to be portrayed as some sort of criminal.
That's my intuition on the matter - I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
The article you linked here is very hard to follow, but it apparently relies on the idea that Trayvon Martin made it back to where he was staying and then left again to confront Zimmerman, without dropping off what he had picked up at the convenience store... seems like quite the stretch to me.
This site also includes stories like "Was Trayvon Martin a drug dealer", "Did Trayvon Martin Referee School Fights", "F****** Cold", etc... usually your sources seem to be of a higher quality than this