(from the article:) The bait-and-switch here is that instead of asking whether or not there are lots of incidents of these “random” attacks – and ones with racial disparities between the perps and victims – they ask if it is all part of a game. It doesn’t actually really matter to the victims and to the worried public whether or not this is all a game with a set of rules that is discussed and hashed out by its players. What truly matters is whether people are getting beaten up for no reason other than the passing amusement of the perpetrators. But by questioning whether there is some sort of organization to it all, the New York Times gets to avoid discussing the issue directly. “Is this happening?” versus “Is this happening in game form?” are two different questions, and it’s much harder to prove that this is all a sick game than it is to just acknowledge that for whatever reason and by whatever rules, black teenagers are targeting non-black people for no reason other than to try to knock them out cold.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:43:42 +0000
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