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Dreadlocks - another faked racist hate crime

She probably didn't like her dreadlocks that her mum put in, and cut them off herself in defiance. Didn't want to get in trouble so she blamed a couple of yokels who picked on her at school by laughing and pointing at her newly-snipped hair.

"12yo girl is defiant!" and "Preteen kids are dumb and cruel!" are headlines in the same league as "Cat found in tree!" Hopefully, everyone has learned some life lessons?
 
theprestige said:
Just because she knows how to deploy the jargon, it doesn't mean that she has internalized the bigotry.
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That like saying that America has fake white supremacists who talk-the-talk but don't walk-the-walk because it just isn't inside them.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't justify skipping any counseling that would explore the question of her possibly being racist. I think Darat calls it "re-education", or something like that.
 
William Parcher said:
That like saying that America has fake white supremacists who talk-the-talk but don't walk-the-walk because it just isn't inside them.



Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't justify skipping any counseling that would explore the question of her possibly being racist. I think Darat calls it "re-education", or something like that.
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I certainly don't.
 
You might want to sit down for this:

Even though it turned out that this girl lied, white racists are still a massive problem in both the US and the western world in general.
 
Lambchops said:
You might want to sit down for this:

Even though it turned out that this girl lied, white racists are still a massive problem in both the US and the western world in general.
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Something that is not in dispute in this thread. Let's stick to the story being discussed.
 
Puppycow said:
That seems like an odd thing for a skeptic to say.

Shouldn't the media question what they are told?
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When they have a positive reason to, yes. As a default response to any claim? No, that would be actively harmful. Neither we nor the media needs to 9/11-Trutherize every single thing anybody tells them.
 
Checkmite said:
This problem seems to have corrected itself; I find the ending satisfactory.
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I didn't hear anything about the effect on the accused boys. If they were named (which I assumed they were) I'd think the fallout would be a lot stronger, perhaps even their parents getting involved and suing or something.
 
One of this types of forgery happened in Canada as well, when a little girl lied that someone cut her hijab when she was walking to school
 
smartcooky said:
Dos she have a history of hating whites?
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That's unfair. Racism doesn't require a history.

The idea that making up a racial crime inherently has a racial element to it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing we should even have to really even have to argue about.
 
JoeMorgue said:
That's unfair. Racism doesn't require a history.



The idea that making up a racial crime inherently has a racial element to it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing we should even have to really even have to argue about.
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Making up a racial crime has a racial element by definition. That doesn't mean it has a racist element.
 
Checkmite said:
When they have a positive reason to, yes. As a default response to any claim? No, that would be actively harmful. Neither we nor the media needs to 9/11-Trutherize every single thing anybody tells them.
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No, not any claim, but specifically when someone is accusing another person or persons of a crime. Also, "truth bias" makes people more susceptible to deception and fraud. Con artists take advantage of this.
 
William Parcher said:
That like saying that America has fake white supremacists who talk-the-talk but don't walk-the-walk because it just isn't inside them.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't justify skipping any counseling that would explore the question of her possibly being racist. I think Darat calls it "re-education", or something like that.
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You should address this to Thermal, he's actually made that argument several times.
 
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