Yeah, the whole lynching narrative is stupid. Lynching wasn't implicitly racial (more whites were lynched than blacks), and a huge chunk of those were criminals. To be clear, not saying lynching was good, or that sometimes the crime wasn't simply 'he's black, get 'im!', but this idea that it was strictly or primarily a white-on-black act is totally wrong.
It was the people, for better or worse, feeling that justice wasn't being done, and taking maters into their own hands.
But it's a moot point anyway, since "MAGA" doesn't want to "bring back lynching." I assume what this idiot is talking about is that they're rightly pointing out that murder is already illegal, and we don't need politicized "anti-lynching" laws.
Yeah, the whole lynching narrative is stupid. Lynching wasn't implicitly racial (more whites were lynched than blacks), and a huge chunk of those were criminals. To be clear, not saying lynching was good, or that sometimes the crime wasn't simply 'he's black, get 'im!', but this idea that it was strictly or primarily a white-on-black act is totally wrong.
It was the people, for better or worse, feeling that justice wasn't being done, and taking maters into their own hands.
But it's a moot point anyway, since "MAGA" doesn't want to "bring back lynching." I assume what this idiot is talking about is that they're rightly pointing out that murder is already illegal, and we don't need politicized "anti-lynching" laws.