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by interpares 4506 days ago
Quite right. Historical baggage and preconceptions make some things rather difficult in certain countries if you look a certain way. In your example, shaving would do the trick. In the well-documented and numerous examples of blacks being routinely harassed, arrested or killed for unfounded suspicions...?
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jack-r-abbit 4506 days ago
Perhaps the "literally a list of misleading headlines" comment is because if one had the time and thought it would actually be considered, one could probably come up with misleading headlines and links to stories of white people suffering injustice for random things.

Like "Can't divorce an ex Pro Football player [link to story about OJ Simpson killing Nicole]"

Or "Can't drive truck down street [Link to story about Reginald Denny]

I know those are older stories but those are the ones that come to mind with little research.

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wyager 4506 days ago
That's not what's happening in the article at all. They're saying "Black people can't even drink Arizona tea", when in reality it was some guy drinking canned tea and knowingly trespassing so he could get arrested and cash in on the whole "Trayvon Martin had an Arizona tea" thing.
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interpares 4506 days ago
Step 1: Take issue with the sensational language of the original article, which is actually a collection of links to other news stories

Step 2: Take one news story from said article and offer your own made-up explanation that's even more sensational.

Ok then.

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jack-r-abbit 4506 days ago
a collection of links to other news stories

You seem to be focused a lot on just the links and not the sensational language used as anchor text. Some of those stories are tragic. Others not so much. But if the point of that article was to list 21 times a black person was done wrong, they just as well could have given the actual article headline and not editorialized them. (If MotherJones was HN, those titles would have been moderated back to the original.) But that wasn't the point of the article. The list isn't quite as emotional without things like "can't wear a hoodie" and "can't play music at a gas station"

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