If you thought the Zimmerman/Martin case couldn’t get any stranger…
So, was Martin guilty of a homophobic hate crime when he assaulted Zimmerman?
You know, I keep wanting to get away from writing about this case. It’s dominated the news so much for quite a while, and now it’s supposedly “over.”
But it stubbornly resists being over. The repercussions and the twistings and turnings keep on coming, and they raise so many fascinating issues that the entire case seems to have become a sort of magnet for controversies of our times.
Hmm. Another lawsuit in the making? She made a similar claim (warning that Zimmerman may be a rapist) under oath right?
We have had a similar conversation before. While Rachel Jeantel implies that Trayvon Martin feared George Zimmerman, as Trayvon Martin was about 6 inches taller, I doubt that fear was involved.
Steve:
No, she’s not saying Zimmerman actually was a homosexual rapist. She’s saying that on the night of Martin’s death, she warned Martin that he might be. That’s not actionable by anyone, although it certainly could have been instrumental in sparking Martin’s attack on Zimmerman that in fact led to Martin’s own death.
So Travon was a homophobe and in the act of committing a hate crime when Zimmerman shot him. Just how does one understand the victimology of this? Quick, where’s the nearest Department of LGBT Studies to deconstruct what was really happening during the “ground and pound” and how to blame white racis Amerikka for this?
Isn’t “creepy ass cracker” a homophobic slur?
Ray:
There was some discussion of that possibility on this thread.
There was a lot of debate on Althouse (before she closed down comments) about your question, Ray. Depends where you put the hyphen — “creepy-ass cracker” or “creepy ass-cracker”. This was weeks ago, and Althouse thought it was the latter.
My goodness, what an irony.
Watching the media and the lefties have to actually choose between blacks and gays on this one…someone get me some popcorn.
Mizpants:
On that thread I linked to in one of my above comments, I made this remark about that:
In addition, if you listened to Jeantel’s testimony, she said on the stand that she had warned Martin that the creepy-ass guy following him might be a homosexual rapist. This is the relevant part:
I can’t seem to find a transcript of her testimony right now. I’ve learned not to take the newspapers’ word for these things. But that will have to do at the moment.
Inkraven:
They won’t have to choose. They’ll just ignore it.
Wow, double entendre. Simple, naive me, I would never have gotten that implication of the phrase, “creepy ass cracker,” without this discussion.
Did Martin turn back and confront Zimmerman because of that? Phew, it does keep getting stranger and stranger.
Neo, it just got stranger and even more pernicious.
Holder has set up a website asking civil rights groups and the public to send him tips that Geroge Zimmerman is racist. It should be up and running by week’s end.
It is open season on white people and we are watching the vivisection of a man who defended himself against a violent attack.
and open season on Hispanics and conservatives but the Media wins bonus points if they can get that white label in their narrative.
But the real racists get a free pass for their hate and prejudice and violence. And applause
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-monday-20130715,0,5135359.story
Hey, get off our backs, whiteys. We’re conducting as many thug ops as we can, in the time we have. We also need funding and guns from ATF.
Open season on X doesn’t mean we can always hit them where it hurts. We need time, resources, and some munitions.
The very essence of freedom is being able to defend oneself. And that is what this Administration wants to take away from us. The verdict is a ray of sunlight shining on those worms.