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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
This was a mass attempted lynching. It seems fairly evident from the story and from other eye-witness testimony from other sources that it was indeed racially based.
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Who's being hyperbolic now? (As if "black supremacists" wasn't hyperbolic enough.)
Lynching is more than mob violence and more than murder. Lynching is not necessarily racially-based (though certainly in this country, most lynchings have been racially-based, being used by whites to try to "control" minority groups). From the Encyclopedia Britannica: "lynching, a form of violence in which a mob,
under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation."
So unless you can point out to me where the perpetrators of this alleged "mass attempted lynching" could be said to be attempting to administer their own justice to those they believed to be guilty of something, then no -- there's nothing "fairly evident" about it at all.