Kasz216 said:
richardhutnik said:
Kasz216 said:
For the Trayvon Martin case...
I'd say it sounds like a pretty shitty case for self defense, so the guy should be looking at charges however 90% of what i've read has seem to have been discounted at later dates.
Don't think there is really any room for "Self reflection".... yet.
Though people hate to do this... the smart thing to do would be to wait two months... wait for all the facts to be settled and THEN protest if nothing has been done.
People are taking this as an open and close racist white guy shoots black kid and racist cops let it go...
even though the guy who shot him is half Hispanic... and from pictures looks noticeably Hispanic.
Not saying that can't be an aspect, but it seems a lot more complicated then that, especially considering the guy's general background which apparently included tutoring black children.
If I was going to jump to any conclusion it would be that he was a crazy overzealous wanna be cop who probably grabbed the kid, got his face knocked in a bit then shot the kid. Which he should go to jail over, but really that's a whole different argument and national discourse if that's what happened.
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In the world of the Internet, you have 15 minutes of fame break out. People look for anything to jump on and it blows up too early. Look into Linsanity as an example of this. Jeremy Lin of the Knicks had a real good early run as a starter and made the cover of Sports Illustrated two weeks in a row. He tailed off a bunch since then, but became the top selling jersey in the NBA for a brief stint and it went nuts.
The case actually took like a month to blow up, and then became flavor of the week.
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I don't know. Jermey Linn is actually playing pretty damn good still if you ask me. The hype died down when the Knicks went on a loosing streak, but Lin's numbers didn't really suffer during that streak.
Really it was blame pointed at carmelo, for what seemed like Amare indecisiveness/inability to be agressive.
Last couple games were bad, but i mean. He's injured.
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Lin has tailed off for a number of reasons. The reality is though, he shouldn't of gotten hyped to the level he did. Knicks are now winning again, with the coach being fired, and Lin is in a role player roll. Knicks won like double digits a large number of games, getting score over 20, without Lin being a factor. But, it isn't Lin at the Jordanesque level that he was at during the start of Linsanity, where he was transcending the NBA and becoming the story. I follow the Knicks actually.
The point anyhow is that, in the age of the Internet, things will blow up in a hurry and go nuts, for no logical reason. Occupy did this, for example, and you have Kony 2012, which happened with certain celebrities being targeted to tweet. Did Kony 2012 deserve what it got attentionwise? No it didn't, but it happened.
