An 18-year-old Korean student at Auburn University was assaulted [Ledger-Enquirer] by four white men Thursday. Fortunately, he wasn’t seriously injured. FBI is investigating whether his attack should be classified a hate crime.
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Racism in Alabama? It cannot be!
I personally apologize for these egregious actions. Oh, wait…
That link doesn’t seem to be working
Looks like the Ledger-Enquirer is down at the moment.
Is it this story?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18290151/
This could just be the case of someone being assaulted on a university campus. God knows that never happens.
(Reminds me of how my buddy’s roommates -two very burly PE students- were actually considering getting dressed up as women and walk around campus because a pervert had assaulted a women on campus as she was walking home late at night. Their plan fell through pretty quickly. They just couldn’t find dresses that fit them.)
Re comment 1: It’s pretty gratuitous for us Canadians or even “Yankees” (Americans from outside the South) to knock Southerners for their racism, but (a) from what I gather, most young southerners are a heck of a lot different than some of their forebears; and (b) the rest of us folks shouldn’t be too smug about our own sad histories of race relations.
Not too bad so far, considering how I’ve read gyopos saying they were planning to walk around in black, backwards-turned baseball caps and tan vests and “see what happens.”
By the way, what are the statistical norms for a Korean being involved in some altercation over the period of seven days in America?
Weak-ass Americans have a long way to go before they catch up with:
The Canadian Backlash of 2002:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/Arti.....ked_020720
The Russian Backlash of 2005:
http://www.monitor.upeace.org/.....rticle=417
The Australian Backlash of 2007:
http://stuff.co.nz/4008596a12855.html
The Japanese Backlash of 2006:
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/200.....s07/20.htm
Of course all those occurred before the VT shootings, so they’re more of a…uh…Forelash.
And if you’re interested in the average, normal (pre-Backlash) racial atmosphere around Auburn, there’s always this:
http://www.oanow.com/servlet/S.....3350221274
Or of course the Korean Backlash against their own, obviously violence against Koreans by Koreans inspired by shame over Cho:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....ryCode=117
http://joongangdaily.joins.com.....id=2874875
Given the fact that the Backlash is now occurring inside Korea, no doubt Korean parents will be pulling their kids out of Korean schools, avoiding going to malls, keeping a low profile, and reconsidering whether they should continue living in Korea given the wave of Backlash violence against Koreans caused by racial prejudice and hatred by Koreans against Koreans in Korea.
Funny thing about “hate crimes,” there could be 500 rapes in the next month at Auburn, and as long as the victims are white women, the FBI won’t get involved. But a few college rednecks throw a Korean up against a wall, just like they did in High School, and Middle School, and probably Elementary School to any Asian kid (or Mexican kid, or black kid, or Indian kid, or any non-white kid of any kind, or disabled kid, or dumb kid, or ugly kid, or fat kid, or poor kid) they saw…
HATE CRIME!
STFU, blueballs. I don’t like Clinton personally, but I’m glad he signed a Hate Crime law to cast those who deal that Majority stick around to the minorities get their due time in darkness.
HATE crime law is bullshit in itself, because it’s clearly a partial law, but consider it a sort of retribution.
You know, the days when whites come and wreck havoc, you call the white Sheriff, and he says nothin’ happenned.
There were those days.
To say there weren’t, why, I call you a lier.
and to be fair, something analogous to #10 happens when you call ROK police. Yes, that I know. Neither is right.
I almost wish an anti-Korean backlash would happen. That way, perhaps we’d get to see what Blueballs looks like from the papers…
wjk wrote:
“HATE crime law is bullshit in itself, because it’s clearly a partial law, but consider it a sort of retribution.”
Tell it to ten-year-old Ryan Rusch.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18079167/
iheartblueballs, in his trademark blunt style, brings up a valid objection to the special classification of hate crimes. Crime is a problem, period. We all fear it. No one is completely safe. If two burglars tie up a family and slit their throats, is that somehow less heinous or terrifying to the community than two rednecks shooting to death a black man?
Moreover, not all groups targeted with hate violence are protected. Here in Virginia, gays and lesbians are not protected despite some very high profile crimes like the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard.
Blueballs is, as he is 99% of the time, correct.
In a perfect world, the torture and murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom would be considered a “hate crime”.
But thanks to newcomers like wjk raising the specter of 1866 Mississippi, it is barely even reported.
http://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.....christian/
Disgusting that a mere high school fight got more press.
iheartblueballs, are you the “Incestuous Amplification” dude?
I thought iheartblueballs identified himself as a liberal….
Remember, Ryan Rusch wasn’t a victim of hate crime because they didn’t mug him due to his being a 100-pound, heart-condition having white boy- they just mugged him because they knew it meant he was less likely to fight back!
As for American university campuses, I sincerely hope if it was really motivated by his being Korean (how did they tell? Was he playing Sudden Attack?) that the Korean students at Auburn can solve it the old-fashioned way. If I was a racist trashbag pussy who jumped kids when I outnumbered them, the last thing I’d want to see is twenty Korean students outside my apartment door one night.
Damn you Borat. DAMN YOU!!!!!
Son of a bitch. Just like I told the authorities…I didn’t know she was my 16-year old cousin until AFTER I threw one in her can. Why you always gotta bring up old shit?
Seriously, what exactly is an “Incestuous Amplification” and why am I being unjustly accused of sister-diddling?
Actually I only identified myself as being permanently afflicted with navy blue testicles. Any other labels are the result of active imaginations.
Sir dogbertt,
I wouldn’t call it a ghost of the South.
One of my school black classmates says, as late as 2004, he was pulled over somewhere in the Carolinas by a cop.
The cop told him, he had to pull him over, because a black guy like him driving a nice car like that…
That was my friend’s story.
I believe it.
plus, some Sheriffs and state troopers need only a high school diploma.
Other spots like LAPD, NYPD, you need a college diploma.
Why do you think that is so?
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“An 18-year-old Korean student at Auburn University was assaulted [Ledger-Enquirer] by four white men Thursday.”
Who cares? Do you know how many times I’ve heard of English teachers getting jumped in Hongdae by groups of Koreans?
1. Usually, any other whities in the vicinity don’t help out the guy. Blacks stick together, Koreans stick together, but not whites.
2. The whities hardly EVER follows through with police reporting and compensation demands. And the Korean punks (they really are “punks” — mohawks and studded jackets) are free to beat other whities next weekend.
Seth Gecko, yeah, but America prides itself in being more “tolerant”, doesn’t it?
1. If you or I drive through a predominantly black neighborhood, we may well get pulled over too.
Only it won’t be by the cops.
2. Being pulled over by the cops != being raped and tortured.
Click on the link I posted.
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So many deletes. I’m intimidated.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18353425/
Some high school senior followed instructions for creative writing assignment and got arrested as a result
So he produced the following passage.
Dumb to write this so close to VT, but technically he did follow instructions for an assignment.
Thanks for the link, Enraptor. A charge of “disorderly conduct” for an essay seems inappropriate. Students who make threatening remarks directly to a teacher or to other students deserve disciplinary action. Students who talk or write about violence in a non-personal yet disturbing way should be steered to the guidance office, regardless of the instructions for the assignment. Talking with a counselor is not punishment.
iheartblueballs:
Kevin of IA used to post so sarcastic that it borderlined on sardonic. You sir, do fit the bill.
To keep this on topic, the meme of “The Backlash” may be interpeted by some as being “Incestuous amplification” by the Korean Netizens….
plus, some Sheriffs and state troopers need only a high school diploma.
Other spots like LAPD, NYPD, you need a college diploma.
Why do you think that is so?
WJK, have you ever met an educated person who hates? I know some people in law enforcement. They like the fact they have economic protection and they feel that people HAVE to respect them. The truth of the matter is many if not most cops are slugs. The next time you are at the wine symposium or Chamber music gathering, as Barney Fife to pass the jelly.
Shakuhachi, the “I hate anything Korean” blogger extraordinaire from Occidentalism.com, and iheartblueballs, the “I mock anything Korean” satirist poster with the rapier wit having a conversation about incestuous amplification…
Hahahahahahaha.
Surreal.
I think I’ve just come down with a case of “hwa-byung” from having witnessed this. Somebody, refer me to a good “mudang” so I can exorcise these thoughts.