• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      My wife and I are Southern socialist libtards and usually vote in camo. We’ve debated open carrying but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle.

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    15 days ago

    Describing an 18 year old as a “teen” certainly is a choice. And not one commonly made when the person accused of a crime is black.

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      13 days ago

      The media seems to have no standard on using terms and switches them willy-nilly to net the better headline.

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        It’s not switched willy-nilly though, it’s strongly correlated with race. The “better headline” is “dangerous black perpetrator prone to crime” and “foolish white boy that looks like you and just made a mistake of youth”. Appealing to the racism is what makes the headline “better” (i.e., more affirming to the majority readership).