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The Double Standard
Your media guide to the differences between #Ferguson and #pumpkinfest http://t.co/XfRjlhgei0
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Matt Weinecke (@MattTW) October 19, 2014CNN says "bonfires," not ARSON re: Keene fires. Y'all, somebody set a bonfire in the QT. cnn.com/2014/10/19/us/… #Pumkinfest
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deray mckesson (@deray) October 19, 2014****
Ferguson protests after a murder. Media calls them thugs and mobs
White students set fires and vandalize. Media calls them "rowdy" #Keene
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 19, 2014Your perfect double standard excuse
sick of social media make a big deal out of #keenepumpkinfest kids party every year lets not act like kids now are any worse than before
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Ryan Sanderson (@rysanderson) October 19, 2014****
If only this community’s leaders would speak out to condemn this violence. #PumpkinFest bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/…
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Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) October 19, 2014Don't these people have jobs? Where are the white fathers? What will end this corrosive culture of violence?! bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/…
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 19, 2014****
White ppl looting at Lacoste.
That's the whole joke.
Just "white people looting at Lacoste." #keenepumpkinfest http://t.co/sVPmC1KGHA
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2014White students vandalizing. Where are the leaders who will speak about this culture of violence?! #pumpkinfest #Keene http://t.co/CRuwcxRS88
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 19, 2014****
So #pumpkinfest is like #Ferguson protests only no purpose, more violence & less police brutality. Cool.
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Molly (@mollyrosestl) October 19, 2014White privileged 'thugs' rioting for their right to party and flip cars in #Keene, NH. #pumpkinfest http://t.co/5ED8Qu9Lve
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Viva la causa! (@70torinoman) October 19, 2014****
Look at these thug gang-bangers in Keene, NH. #pumpkinfest http://t.co/DHwgAHC9Kd
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Ray Wert (@raywert) October 19, 2014Lacoste. Looting. The color of privilege is blinding. #pumpkinfest http://t.co/rdjviqpQC5
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deray mckesson (@deray) October 19, 2014****
Cops don't feel "threatened" by white kids who loot, burn cars,but use that excuse 2 kill blacks who R unarmed n not a threat #pumpkinfest
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(@DrTMG) October 19, 2014The discrepancies in police response and media coverage between #Ferguson and #keenepumpkinfest should be a wake up call, but they won't
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E Ru the Damaja (@AlluringShrew) October 19, 2014****
Words white ppl will use to describe #KeenePumpkinFest:
Melee
Fracas
Kerfuffle
Brouhaha
Mayhem
Rowdy
Unruly
Shenanigans
Rumpus
Ruckus
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2014Interestingly, The Blaze leads with “When College Kids Get Too Drunk.”
Their headline on Ferguson? “Riots, Looting, Sharpton…"
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Dianna E Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 19, 2014****
Not one news report (that I’ve seen) leads with the concept of violence. It’s all “unruly college kids” getting “out of hand.”
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Dianna E Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 19, 2014White rioters looted stores, chanting “fuck the police.” 14 arrests.
Ferguson protesters stood on sidewalk. 50+ arrests.
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Dianna E Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 19, 2014****
"Rowdy" is a peculiar word for the rioters at that #pumpkinfest, @cnnbrk. About 30 were injured. How about "violent"? cnn.it/1tCvTQW
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 19, 2014@Cnn “unruly” your reporting is garbage and biased / people rioted and destroyed property #ferguson #keenepumpkinfest http://t.co/Og1j79GjtU
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bL0Ve (@2_Synnseer) October 19, 2014****
Saw someone refer to the #keenepumpkinfest riot as a "fracas."
White folks digging deep into their thesaurus to find descriptive words.
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2014@AngryBlackLady My favorite so far is “mayhem”. Mayhem sounds kind of fun. People get drunk, mayhem ensues.
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Dave (@D_v_E) October 19, 2014@AngryBlackLady @jmcaninch68 us White folks taught we "fracas", Black people "riot". White guys are "Young Men" and Black guys are "Thugs".
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CaptainGarrett (@spclifton) October 19, 2014****
Protest. Riot.
Survival. Privilege.
Citizens. Thugs.
Peace. Destruction.
Right. Wrong.
Black. White. http://t.co/BoWJt1IJ8l
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No Justice No Peace (@drumbeats4peace) October 19, 2014#pumpkinfest Where White Kids can destroy their neighborhood and the cops just smile and go "Those Crazy Kids"
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Viktor T Kerney (@wondermann5) October 19, 2014****
reasons white people riot:
1. their sports team wins
2. their sports team loses
3. no more tickle me elmos
4. tea
5. pumpkins
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Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) October 19, 2014Media on #Ferguson: Angry mob loots and destroys the community.
Media on #KeenePumpkinFest: Unruly college kids get a little rowdy.
Hmm...
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 19, 2014****
I mean, #whiteviolence has brought us riots in two different states on the same day. Over sports & pumpkins.
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) October 19, 2014See, when white ppl riot, it's "rowdy," "awry," & "mayhem." Black ppl protest unjustified murder & it's a violent riot. Fuck off, media.
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2014****
✌️gone awry✌️ RT @TIME Dozens were injured as police used riot gear to break up an annual pumpkin festival gone awry ti.me/1sYyMJs
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Alejandro NIGlesias (@AlejandroDaGr8) October 19, 2014Had some Black ppl started a pumpkin riot the Natl Guard would've been called in. Let's keep that real. #WhitePrivilege #keenepumpkinfest
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Doc Blue (@DrJP2011) October 19, 2014****
People of color fight for their right to not be killed & brutalized; white kids fight for their right to party. #Ferguson #keenepumpkinfest
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Janaka Stucky (@janaka_stucky) October 19, 2014This happened at #pumpkinfest not #Ferguson but cops decided no snipers or military force was needed. Wonder why? http://t.co/bhmIolX9Up
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Political Nerd (@Sttbs73) October 19, 2014
Steve Kornacki (Salon): …if this does end up being the end for Anthony Weiner’s public career, it might not be quite the injustice it seems like – at least if you know how his career began.
Twenty years ago, Weiner’s opening came when the City Council was radically expanded … One of the new districts, the 48th, would be in Southern Brooklyn. It was a neat match for Weiner … there was no incumbent, and the population was heavily Jewish. He jumped in the race.
He was not the favorite … as the all-important Sept. 10 Democratic primary approached, the consensus was that he’d come up short…
It was at this point that Weiner’s campaign decided to blanket the district with leaflets attacking his opponents. But these were no ordinary campaign attacks: They played the race card, and at a very sensitive time. They were also anonymous.
Just weeks earlier, the Crown Heights riot – a deadly, days-long affair that brought to the surface long-standing tension between the area’s black and Jewish populations – had played out a few miles away from the 48th District…
It was just days after order had been restored that Weiner’s campaign distributed its anonymous leaflets, which linked (Democrat rival) Adele Cohen – whose voters he was targeting in particular – to Jesse Jackson and David Dinkins, who was then New York’s mayor. It is hard to imagine two more-hated political figures in the 48th District at that moment … The leaflets urged voters to “just say no” to the “Jackson-Dinkins agenda” that Cohen supposedly represented. At City Hall, Dinkins held up the flier and branded it “hateful.”
….Weiner finished in first place … only after the ballots were counted did he admit that he’d been behind the leaflets, claiming that “We didn’t want the source to be confused with the message.”…
… who knows where Weiner would be today if he hadn’t made such a dark appeal to racial hostility days after a notorious riot?
…..Is it unfair if he loses his political future because of a scandal as dumb as this one? Sure. But it’s also not exactly fair that he ever made it this far.
Full article here
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