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[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Just wanted to add “tweeting” has to be the dumbest shit on the planet…especially for celebrities and politicians…unless their lawyers are writing the tweets.[/quote]

Indeed.

But would it really hurt Spike to apologize and ask his followers to quit re-tweeting?

Just seems like common courtesy to me…

Mea Culpa if he has already done this.[/quote]

Apologizing might be seen as an admission of guilt by some and could hurt his defense in the inevitable (and just) lawsuit filed by that elderly couple, so I would imagine his attorneys are advising him to keep his mouth shut.

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[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:

[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:

Or the tweeting of an incorrect address (or even if it were correct for that matter) by spike lee of the address of an elderly couple who have now had to flee their home over death threats.[/quote]

FYI Marcus D Higgins was the first who tweeted that address. Many retweeted it, included Spike Lee. Unfortunately, people are bound to follow the celebs more than anyone else’s. So yeah the blame is on him now. His mistake for not having that address checked beforehand.

I expect a law suit soon.
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So if Spike had in fact checked the address and confirmed it was Zimmerman’s, he would have been justified in retweeting it? I hope that is not what you are saying.

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??

Spike was wrong to get involved at all. With great power comes great responsibility…and he knows this by now…but that is the world we live in now so I guess he let his guard down.

I guess that will happen when you actually take “tweeting” and “youtubing” seriously.

Yeah, the world didn’t need to know you used the restroom…and you may not like it when the shit hits the fan.

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[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Just wanted to add “tweeting” has to be the dumbest shit on the planet…especially for celebrities and politicians…unless their lawyers are writing the tweets.[/quote]

Indeed.

But would it really hurt Spike to apologize and ask his followers to quit re-tweeting?

Just seems like common courtesy to me…

Mea Culpa if he has already done this.[/quote]

Apologizing might be seen as an admission of guilt by some and could hurt his defense in the inevitable (and just) lawsuit filed by that elderly couple, so I would imagine his attorneys are advising him to keep his mouth shut.
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Exactly.

The dumbest thing this guy could do is give ANY further commentary in public…especially with the crazy journalist running this shit-mill.

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[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Just wanted to add “tweeting” has to be the dumbest shit on the planet…especially for celebrities and politicians…unless their lawyers are writing the tweets.[/quote]

Indeed.

But would it really hurt Spike to apologize and ask his followers to quit re-tweeting?

Just seems like common courtesy to me…

Mea Culpa if he has already done this.[/quote]

Apologizing might be seen as an admission of guilt by some and could hurt his defense in the inevitable (and just) lawsuit filed by that elderly couple, so I would imagine his attorneys are advising him to keep his mouth shut.
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Gotcha…makes sense.

Spike is still a tool in this situation…But I take back what I said about him not apologizing if it was under the advice of his council.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:

[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:

Or the tweeting of an incorrect address (or even if it were correct for that matter) by spike lee of the address of an elderly couple who have now had to flee their home over death threats.[/quote]

FYI Marcus D Higgins was the first who tweeted that address. Many retweeted it, included Spike Lee. Unfortunately, people are bound to follow the celebs more than anyone else’s. So yeah the blame is on him now. His mistake for not having that address checked beforehand.

I expect a law suit soon.
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So if Spike had in fact checked the address and confirmed it was Zimmerman’s, he would have been justified in retweeting it? I hope that is not what you are saying.

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??

Spike was wrong to get involved at all. With great power comes great responsibility…and he knows this by now…but that is the world we live in now so I guess he let his guard down.

I guess that will happen when you actually take “tweeting” and “youtubing” seriously.

Yeah, the world didn’t need to know you used the restroom…and you may not like it when the shit hits the fan.[/quote]

Sometimes you confuse the hell out of me. I completely agree that Spike should not have got involved.

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[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:

[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
ITs a soccer fight. It just so happens it’s between opposite races IDK what posting that was trying to prove. Fights happen between athletes in sporting events all the damn time. Don’t you remember that brawl in college bball not too long ago???[/quote]
Just so happens huh?

Interesting.[/quote]

I have to admit I had fun setting that trap for the reverse-bigots.

It must be difficult for them to think with so much cognative dissonance in their heads:

"black on white attack = not racism

(any other color) attack on black = white racism"

Bit like Winston Smith in “1984,” except “political correctness” instead of “new think.”[/quote]

What the fuck is your problem?? Did I ever say that racism is only a black issue? Discrimination is widespread, racism is widespread and it happens to every color and creed. A fight that starts at a soccer game with players that just so happen to be of different race isn’t even close to the issue at hand. I’m pretty sure who ever tackled that girl wouldve gotten the brunt of her anger…just the mood she was in it seemed.

I am not a bigot. I am the last person who would be a “Racist” You guys spew so much about conjecture next time you have a question just ask. SMH[/quote]

Hey, their new defence mechanism is to call you a bigot or racist for talking about discrimination.

And just ignore that fool. I have him on ignore. He’s quite quick at pointing the ‘‘black bigots’’, trying to show blacks in a bad light as much as he can yet he forgets about his own prejudices toward Palestinians and Arabs. The death of innocent Palestinian women and children under Israeli missiles is always justifiable.

I’d invite you to read PWI sometimes if your stomach can handle it.
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OUCH.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Just wanted to add “tweeting” has to be the dumbest shit on the planet…especially for celebrities and politicians…unless their lawyers are writing the tweets.[/quote]

Indeed.

But would it really hurt Spike to apologize and ask his followers to quit re-tweeting?

Just seems like common courtesy to me…

Mea Culpa if he has already done this.[/quote]

Apologizing might be seen as an admission of guilt by some and could hurt his defense in the inevitable (and just) lawsuit filed by that elderly couple, so I would imagine his attorneys are advising him to keep his mouth shut.
[/quote]

Exactly.

The dumbest thing this guy could do is give ANY further commentary in public…especially with the crazy journalist running this shit-mill.[/quote]
Which shit mill?

The racist red herring where a brown shot a black and whites were blamed, without which none of the bullshit shit storm would’ve occurred?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:

[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
ITs a soccer fight. It just so happens it’s between opposite races IDK what posting that was trying to prove. Fights happen between athletes in sporting events all the damn time. Don’t you remember that brawl in college bball not too long ago???[/quote]
Just so happens huh?

Interesting.[/quote]

I have to admit I had fun setting that trap for the reverse-bigots.

It must be difficult for them to think with so much cognative dissonance in their heads:

"black on white attack = not racism

(any other color) attack on black = white racism"

Bit like Winston Smith in “1984,” except “political correctness” instead of “new think.”[/quote]

What the fuck is your problem?? Did I ever say that racism is only a black issue? Discrimination is widespread, racism is widespread and it happens to every color and creed. A fight that starts at a soccer game with players that just so happen to be of different race isn’t even close to the issue at hand. I’m pretty sure who ever tackled that girl wouldve gotten the brunt of her anger…just the mood she was in it seemed.

I am not a bigot. I am the last person who would be a “Racist” You guys spew so much about conjecture next time you have a question just ask. SMH[/quote]

Hey, their new defence mechanism is to call you a bigot or racist for talking about discrimination.

And just ignore that fool. I have him on ignore. He’s quite quick at pointing the ‘‘black bigots’’, trying to show blacks in a bad light as much as he can yet he forgets about his own prejudices toward Palestinians and Arabs. The death of innocent Palestinian women and children under Israeli missiles is always justifiable.

I’d invite you to read PWI sometimes if your stomach can handle it.
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OUCH.[/quote]
I would hope you two are just playing dumb about not understanding the double standards you each prescribe too.

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[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:

Or the tweeting of an incorrect address (or even if it were correct for that matter) by spike lee of the address of an elderly couple who have now had to flee their home over death threats.[/quote]

FYI Marcus D Higgins was the first who tweeted that address. Many retweeted it, included Spike Lee. Unfortunately, people are bound to follow the celebs more than anyone else’s. So yeah the blame is on him now. His mistake for not having that address checked beforehand.

I expect a law suit soon.
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It was still a terrible thing to do if it was correct. It’s also a bigger deal that spike did it because he has a ton of followers. he was the one that caused most of the destruction to the elderly couple’s lives. It’s also important to note that he is unapologetic.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
when no criminal activity was going on.

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you don’t even know that. And there are plenty of legal actions that can and should raise suspicions.[/quote]

Dude, just stop. WHAT criminal activity was this kid involved in while walking home.

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Never said he was. I said you don’t know he wasn’t.

how would or should we have heard about it to this point?

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Quit this. To truly have the stance you are taking, you would need to be following every poster here around and calling them out on every “fact” written.[/quote]

No true.

It is a fact that we don’t know what the kid was doing or why Zimmerman found him suspicious. Period. Stop with the facetious nonsense trying to avoiding the fact that you are making stuff up.

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[quote]therajraj wrote:
I get Jewbacca’s point, but that video wasn’t a very good example. People become naturally heated in competition, and the woman who assaulted the white girl simply snapped. I do not believe that was a race related incident because it happened within the context of a sporting event.

I have gotten the urge to smash my friends face in during an intense pickup game (I obviously didn’t). So no, to me that soccer field incident was just a crazy woman unable to control her emotions.[/quote]

That WAS my primary point.

Most intra-racial violence has some other reason behind it than race.

I intentionally found a silly black-on-white example to elicit one of the Zimmerman-is-bigot crowd into making that point.

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[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Just wanted to add “tweeting” has to be the dumbest shit on the planet…especially for celebrities and politicians…unless their lawyers are writing the tweets.[/quote]

Indeed.

But would it really hurt Spike to apologize and ask his followers to quit re-tweeting?

Just seems like common courtesy to me…

Mea Culpa if he has already done this.[/quote]

Apologizing might be seen as an admission of guilt by some and could hurt his defense in the inevitable (and just) lawsuit filed by that elderly couple, so I would imagine his attorneys are advising him to keep his mouth shut.
[/quote]

Gotcha…makes sense.

Spike is still a tool in this situation…But I take back what I said about him not apologizing if it was under the advice of his council.
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If he has the nerve to publicly post someone’s address in an obvious attempt to invite terrible things to happen to the people at the address. Least he could do as a man and human is say he was wrong. He could even say something to the effect of “it’s a sad situation and I’m sad to hear about what is happening to those people. I wish them the best.” without admitting any guilt.

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Reasonable interview with Zimmerman’s buddy. Nothing earthshaking.

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[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:

Hadn’t he seen the end of Gran Torino? [/quote]

In that case Trayvon would have had the gun.

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It’s a little old…and we know more now…but I think some interesting points were made.

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Retry

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[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:

Retry[/quote]

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Shake my damn head…

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