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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Splitting linguistic hairs


Lynch mob, Salisbury, NC, circa 1906


Lynch mob, Durham, NC, circa 2006

Hairsplitting indeed.

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posted by Barry at 2:36 PM Digg this

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  • You found a photo Michael Jermaine Burch!

    http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1208088/

    Oh wait, you didn't.

    Or you found a photo of these five animals swinging from the trees.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp

    Oh wait, you didn't. (You did know about this didn't you? Snopes says that if you don't it's because it's same old same old. Five blacks murder two whites in the most horrific way possible and it's just another day's birdcage liner.)

    Is it OK if a black man born into 1930s NC Jim Crow calls it a lynch mob?

    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/04/17/a_gutless_lynch_mob

    (Ragagain will be calling Sowell something unprintable in 5.4.3.2.1..... which won't stop Ragagain from printing it.)

    And why didn't you use this picture?

    http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1338/castrate2pi2.jpg

    Because a group of angry people carrying signs reading "Castrate" and "Give them equal measure" mean no harm at all.

    Robyn Wiegman informs us that "Being tarred and feathered is the language of lynching..."

    http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/10/25/Letters/Cultivate.Community.Of.Critical.Thought-2400650.shtml

    even thought the word was never actually used in the original.

    Maybe just to keep Ragin's hardwired literal mind happy we'll have to call it a "castrate mob". That's so much better.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:53 PM  

  • O LOCOMOTIVE BREATH I LUV IT WHEN YOU SHOW ALL THESE " LIBRAL " PANTIE WASTES THE TRUTH

    RICH WHITES LIKE US ARE UNDER ATTACK FROM " POISON IVEY " TOWER LIBERALS EVERYWHERE!

    THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR RITE TO DRIVE WHATEVER CAR WE WANT - WHO CARES IF WE CAN AFFORD THE GAS! OUR RIGHT TO SMOKE ANYWHERE WE WANT - WHAT THE F ARE BARS FOR ANYHOW! THEY WANT US TO PAY HIGHER TAXES ALL THE TIME!

    DO U KNOW WHY? " ENVY "

    WE ALL KNOW THAT THE BIGEST THREAT WE ALL FACE IS FROM THESE CRAZYS GETTING TOGETHER IN GROUPS. I WOULD HAVE RUN FOR TOMS RIVER THE MOMENT I SEEN THE KITCHENWEAR COME OUT

    I AM OSIRIS! UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION, EXHIBITION OR DISTRIBUTION OF COPYRIGHTED SOUND RECORDINGS CAN RESULT IN SEVERE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PENALTIES UNDER THE LAWS OF YOUR COUNTRY!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:24 PM  

  • Dude! I wish that photo had been behind a link with a warning.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:55 PM  

  • I am so sorry, Val. I tried to pick the least offensive picture of the pot-banging mob that i could find.

    By Blogger Barry, at 9:55 PM  

  • Thanks for sharing the powerful photo. A lot of upper- middle-class white guys who grow up in the Tri-State Area in the 1980s think a lynch mob was a fan group for this guy.

    Ha ha ha, the Lynch Mob, get it?

    Of course it's not funny, because only an idiot would make light of a lynch mob.

    It's much like it's taboo to equate any politician or political group in this country to the Nazis, except for the Nazi party (which could steal some votes from the Republicans this November should they decide to field a presidential candidate).

    By Blogger toastie, at 1:48 AM  

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