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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by kingsuper20 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:32PM (#26961892)
>no, a lynching is a murder by a racist mob

no, a lynching is an extra-legal murder by a mob.

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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by _qwfv on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:35PM (#26961932)
In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence. It's not strictly the definition of the word, but most folks in the states will understand a lynching to imply race related murders.
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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by cbmuser on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:13PM (#26962481)
> In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence.

Please don’t assume everyone is a US citizen.

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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by Pfhreak on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:24PM (#26962642)
I'm not. In fact, I'm the opposite. That's literally why I wrote that comment. It was for the benefit of people who were not US citizens who may not understand that a US reader will likely interpret the phrase that way.
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