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Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by Brian_K_White on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:32AM (#28378166)
...and they didn't get arrested for no reason, lived to adulthood, and when they tried to get a job they were taken seriously and evaluated mostly on their ability.
Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by 908B64B197 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#28382578)
You are making a lot of assumptions.

Try showing up at a hiring event with a southern accent, no matter your race.

Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by Brian_K_White on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:19PM (#28384413)
Try showing up to do anything at all without that southern accent and and without a professed love of jeebus where those accents come from.

This sad story of the unfairness of prejudice somehow inspires not a single tear.

Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by kcplate on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @11:34PM (#28388387)
That doesn’t match my experience in over four decades of living and working in the south.

But it is the same kind of story I hear time and time again from folks who don’t live in the south about the south. So it must be true I guess.

Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by Brian_K_White on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:08PM (#28394589)
If you live and work in the south for over 40 years, then you are by definition no visitor.

Meanwhile, you don't even have to get out of your car to get told you're not welcome when people have big signs on the south bound side of the road proclaiming "You're in TRUMP COUNTRY now!"

Enjoy your denial.

Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by kcplate on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:58PM (#28395241)
Like I said, despite my long experience to the contrary it must be true because somebody on the internet said so.

And I’m sorry that stupid signs frighten you so…most people I know just ignore them.

Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by Brian_K_White on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:58AM (#28402598)
Interpreting that observation as fear on my part rather than fear or ignorance on the part of the property owner is an excellent example of the very incivility you attempted to deny.

Why didn't I ever have the equivalent Obama sign on my yard, gloating in the face of anyone who came by that might not have liked it?

What is the person who does that doing exactly? Have you ever even taken 11 seconds to wonder where actions come from?

It's curious how when I give an example of someone getting off on insulting everyone who drives by their house, your reaction was to excuse that behavior and add your own insult to theirs, attempting to say something about the thickness of my skin, which in the end just says something about the thinness of your own.

Re:Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse by kcplate on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:26PM (#28408297)
Let’s recap. You mentioned that (paraphrasing here) that is difficult to near impossible to get hired in the south without a southern accent and a love for Jesus. I mentioned that wasn’t my experience. You take my response and turn into an anti-trump rant. Again, I mention have never found the south inhospitable, but acknowledged your opinion. I also mention that most people I know ignore stupid signs (because they do). Apparently you don’t or perhaps “can’t”—and that’s your reaction to own. Then you end this with some sort of assumption that the tiny percent of idiots that might place Trump signs in their yards are somehow representative of an entire region of the country. Including wrapping me into this group because I simply choose to ignore the idiots. You finish your obviously thin skinned rant by trying to project it on to me.

So again I say, I find your initial premise about employment difficulties in the south for folks without a southern accent or without a Christian faith to be be completely counter to my experience.

As for the rest of your diatribe and opinions, I think I am just going to ignore them. Frankly, it reminds me just a little too much of the kind of attitudes and binary thinking that cause certain people to post “Trump country” signs in their yards.