Media Downplays Mayhem at Six Flags Park in D.C. Suburb
September 30, 2014
SEE the report at the DailyKenn blog.
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Buck writes:
The reactions of the parents interviewed is confounding. It’s as if each one of these countless ongoing savage erruptions is something new and startling.
I used to take my son to that park. I have a photo in front of me, of him and me on one of their excellent rollercoasters. That was more than fifteen years ago. It didn’t take long to learn to avoid that park.
What gets me is the sincere-sounding bewilderment of the parents of these beaten teens. Of a fifteen-year-old in the hospital fighting for his life, a black female “spokesperson” says: “He was an innocent bystander. He had nothing to do with the fight…people continued to beat him while he was unconscious…they knew what they wanted to do and how they were going to do it, they wanted to finish it and to make certain that he was not going to get up.”
“I was just completely floored at how the situation was actually downplayed.” Her fifteen-year-old nephew was brutally attacked: “Blunt-force trauma concussion, holes in the mouth, thirty-two stitches, he’s very shaken up and he has no idea why he was attacked.”
I commented in a long discussion about a savage beating at VFR several years ago: “In the National Zoo in Washington DC, a local white tail deer (they’re everywhere—unnatural population growth) managed to get into the lion’s outside pen while tourist were watching. No one could do a thing, but they all watched. Naturally, no one would do anything. That was nature. What is this?”
Is this savage wilding evil or part of nature?
In one current distortion of logic; common sense is the result of white privilege, and civil rights legislation has caused an “ideology of color-blind racism” that is an even more insidious denial of rights to “the oppressed”.
It’s a if the more distinct any particular group’s pattern of behaviors is, the more insightful and nuanced are the rationalizations that must be found for those behaviors, and always with a greater disregard for common sense.
