Dreadlocks - another faked racist hate crime

[William Parcher]

You should address this to Thermal, he's actually made that argument several times.

What should society (or anyone) do about a young girl who gives indications that she may be a racist? Would you like to see it nipped it in the bud?

 

[plague311]

What should society (or anyone) do about a young girl who gives indications that she may be a racist? Would you like to see it nipped it in the bud?

I haven't seen her give indications that she may be racist.

I'll concede that she picked an easy target to point the finger at, but I really haven't researched the origins of all of this. It's really not in my wheelhouse and for the most part I stay out of the "while black" threads as well.

She doesn't have an established history, there hasn't been reports of her doing this previously, but she perfectly well might be a racist. Deal with it as we would anyone else that's racist. Education and quash the nonsense.

 

[Thermal]

You should address this to Thermal, he's actually made that argument several times.

A) That's a lie. You shouldn't lie, especially when the subtext is a character assassination.
B) It's really weird to reference a poster who is not even involved in the discussion. Kind of unnecessarily personalizing.

 

[Thermal]

This problem seems to have corrected itself; I find the ending satisfactory.

Corrected itself? How do you figure?

The grandparents/guardians were happy to parade the girl in front of the cameras (no privacy issues) when she was claiming victim. Is she being made to publicly apologize now? No. Suddenly it is important to keep her out of the spotlight.

When I did something very wrong as a lad, I had to own it. Not hide behind others apologizing for me (albeit in vague terms, all explanations refused).

But hey, no harm no foul, right? I suppose any claimed victim who publicly names names and later admit they lied should have the same leniency? No problem, right? The problem corrected itself.

 

[CORed]

Here's what I think may have happened (and I think it, because having spent a part of my life as a teacher, I have seen this sort of thing play out a lot)

1. Something happened and the girl's dreads got cut off, maybe by a "friend" or some other person. Maybe it was as a result if a bet or a dare. Anyway, the how and why of it doesn't matter.

2. She didn't want to get the real culprit in trouble so she lied to her parents and blamed the two boys.

3. The parents made a WAAAAY bigger deal out of it that she expected, so she was really forced to either go along with it, or to admit the lie. She tried to ride it out.

4. In the end, things got way more serious, the press the publicity, and she was really forced to own up.

As for the media, what possible reason could they have to disbelieve her. If she seemed credible and her parents supported her story, there was no reason to question it.

IMO, this whole thing is a just a big, fat nothingburger - a pre-teen lied and things got out of hand. Nothing to see here folks, everyone go home.

I had thought something similar. I think that this was just a 12 year old being a 12 year old: Telling a lie to cover something that was embarrassing for her or that she believed would get her in trouble or would get a friend in trouble. It's not surprising the parents got upset by it, but I doubt the girl's motivation was anything other than trying to cover up whatever really happened to her dreadlocks.

 

[plague311]

A) That's a lie. You shouldn't lie, especially when the subtext is a character assassination.
B) It's really weird to reference a poster who is not even involved in the discussion. Kind of unnecessarily personalizing.

You're denying that you've ever said anything like:

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

Because there's a whole ******* thread where you said that American Nazi's just act like Nazi's and don't believe in genocide when it boiled down to it. It's so easily provable I'm not even going to bother sourcing it. Anyone can look it up on this very board with ease.

Also, it's not personalizing if it's pointing out the things you've said.

 

[Thermal]

You're denying that you've ever said anything like:



Because there's a whole ******* thread where you said that American Nazi's just act like Nazi's and don't believe in genocide when it boiled down to it. It's so easily provable I'm not even going to bother sourcing it. Anyone can look it up on this very board with ease.

I have said that I think we have white supremacists that don't advocate genocide. As in, many are more like schoolyard bullies than mass murderers. That is qualitatively pretty far from your claim above.

Also, it's not personalizing if it's pointing out the things you've said.

It is when I'm not even in the thread. Just pulling my name and alleged opinions out of nowhere, to a poster or other readers who may not even know who I am, is really weird, yes. It did not fit into that conversation at all.