Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Hey, white guys: No, you’re not the victim of a “lynch mob”

Hey, white guys: No, you’re not the victim of a “lynch mob”
"To compare being the target of protest or criticism to the shameful, horrific, common practice of lynching — or to think you can append some idiotic modifier like “digital” and use the phrase to mean whatever you want — isn’t just ignorant. It cheapens the phrase, strips it of meaning, and dilutes the awfulness, and the appalling recentness, of a great generational crime against black Americans."