Consider the man committing the assault, the man recording it, the men laughing at it, and the man uploading it online with the tag “whitelivesdontmatter”. Now be honest: can you imagine any other racial/ethnic demographic behaving this way?
If the victim were Jewish, this would be a leading international headline for weeks. If the victim were black and the perpetrators white? Same thing. But because it’s a white victim with black perpetrators, it’s just a local story making a modest splash on social media.
Consider the man committing the assault, the man recording it, the men laughing at it, and the man uploading it online with the tag “whitelivesdontmatter”. Now be honest: can you imagine any other racial/ethnic demographic behaving this way?
If the victim were Jewish, this would be a leading international headline for weeks. If the victim were black and the perpetrators white? Same thing. But because it’s a white victim with black perpetrators, it’s just a local story making a modest splash on social media.
First: It's enough if one can pretend that the perpetrators are white
Second: Same thing + riots, because of course
"White Hispanic cop shoots black man" in LA the other day