From the snopes link:
Let’s all be cautious and not jump to conclusions without care.
Once the protesters get violent, they lose all credibility, sympathy and (for most people) support. What exactly do they want? To overturn a democratically conducted election?
Just to be clear, the link in the OP said nothing about politics. Do I think the political environment can be contributing to (or even causing) this? Yes. But I hope that we can leave blatant, partisan politics out of this in order to prevent the thread from being shut down.
I was more posting it because it happened at what is considered a very liberal college and area. I just want everyone to be safe and to be aware that these things are happening.
The last paragraph of the original news story was political.
This attack took place in the Douglas Park area of Chicago, one of the highest crime areas in the City. A tactic of local thugs is to get a driver to stop and get out, and then rob them or steal the car. This can be done by causing a fender bender, feigning a breakdown or some other ploy that plays on the victims sympathies. This likely was a robbery of convenience, and the man assaulted put up too much of a fight resulting in a beat down and resulting video. Was it a hate crime? Probably, although the CPD is loath to use the term.
That was a tweet from a politician within the post. Many people don’t even click on the post and I don’t think it violated any TOS to be there.
Sorry I didn’t see the tweet in the story. Sometimes embedded media like that doesn’t load on my tablet (which I’m currently using).
A post office employee was seen and recorded by a witness hurling racist insults at a Hispanic male at a Cambridge gas station in the Boston area:
A substitute teacher in LA bullied a Hispanic student by saying his parents will be deported and thankfully was fired for it:
http://laist.com/2016/11/11/teacher_deportation_threats.php
Someone scrawled pro-Trump graffiti on the door of a Muslim prayer room on NYU’s Brooklyn campus:
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161110/downtown-brooklyn/trump-graffiti-muslim-prayer-room-nyu
And my older HS alum friend’s D’s sexual harassment/stalker incident took place in an ostensibly liberal part of Brooklyn.
Let’s be careful about stories put out that have potential to inflame the masses. It’s very easy to have a knee jerk reaction when tempers are flared.
I posted this as a separate thread. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20161112_Racist_messages_target_black_freshmen_at_UPenn_with__lynching_.html
I probably can’t share the link, but if you Google “Someone Made a Guide for What To Do If You See A Hate Crime” there’s an illustrated guide that deals with defending people from Islamaphobic harassment. Similar guide for other situations on the artist’s website. Google “Maeril art blog”. She is a freelance artist in Paris.
Basically, the idea is to engage the person being harassed in normal conversation and completely ignore the harasser.
I’m happy to say that I’ve never seen an incident like that to intervene in, but I have intervened when I saw children being bullied by their parents.
You can bet your last dollar that my temper is flared over the fact that my campus hasn’t been safe for a long time.
We have had “Incidents” all year:
But sure, let’s just wait and see.
@lje62 I agree we need to be cautious.
I don’t doubt there have been incidents. Not at all.But if we hate how easy it is to inflame “them,” let’s be aware how we roil our own group up.
People tend to be automatically inflamed when they see a threat to them which is or is perceived to be based on their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. That is nothing new.
(Note: includes people who feel that even the mere presence of those of some other race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is threatening to their own.)
I just wonder how many of the people protesting…either in groups or individually…actually voted. I suspect the number is shockingly low. I think people that are going to commit a crime as in the Chicago example or are inclined to espouse racial epithets etc. are using the election as an excuse as is the media of course, but yes, in general, best not to inflame them. As romanig points out, some of this is not new…
They way this gets blown up is by assuming. Someone says and you believe it and repeat.
I know protestors. Not only did all of them vote, they have always been incredibly involved with their political party. They have donated generously and given untold volunteer hours.
Look, someone in my community declared the protesters are students, that the local (big name) college is cancelling classes that only taught civil disobedience anyway, and giving course credit to students to go incite violence. Next thing you know, everyone’s talking about the big bad U. Can you smell the baloney? But as I listened, this line of utter uninformed nonsense spread to others. “I heard that the U…”
Of course we all hope no officers are killed. Or protesters or bystanders. But that doesn’t mean people who claim their right to publicly disagree are all hooligans, didn’t vote, will bring violence to our neighborhoods or lots of the rest of it.
Nor does it mean other actions we heard about are rampant and the whole country is falling to S**t.