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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
You didnt have to give yourself a new nickname for trying to oversell a riot. Supremacy?
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A mob lynching of a black man (which this appeared, at least according to eyewitnesses, to be attempted murder several times) would certainly be connotated as white supremecists, whether or not it was true. Do you think that Emmett Till's attackers motives were exaggerated?
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Read your article again and find the other quote that references the number "a hundred" for the estimate of rioters. I will admit I oversold what the original guy said, but that was from poor memory after closing the article. Go ahead and slap my hand. He said 300 or 400 people were there. Still far
short of a war torn zone, especially considering this other quote:
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You missed the point.
You said:
"everyone else says more like 100"
I said:
"If I read correctly, one person says 50-100 and that was inside the fair. He was outside the fair in his car."
But I guess you committed to hyperbole twice. One person is not "everyone else".
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Overall, though, it's the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. - P.J. O'Rourke
Last edited by Elephant Walk; 08-06-2011 at 07:40 PM.
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