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Originally Posted by August
I forgot about that one. Guess with that and the St Louis incident and the Tampa incident makes it a bonafide trend doesn't it?
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If I were the type to generalize based on anecdote, then yeah. I don't apply the gimpy/mookie standard, though. I think violence has been isolated enough that it's on par with the background of violence (no data, just a gut feeling).
People seem to forget that if X% of the population at large are *******s, then X% of any given group are also likely to be *******s.
A better example of systemic violence or vandalism (a friend of mine describes vandalism as "a hate crime against civilization") might be the G-7 protests. Any time there is some global economic meeting, the nuts come out of the woodwork to protest "globalization" and light stuff on fire, break windows, etc. It virtually always happens.