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You really start a thread about race and then complain that others are playing the race card?
BTW, I'd heard about the killing before you posted this. Keep in mind, you posted a story from Newseek in order to complain that the media wasn't covering it.

 

I'd read it the day before you posted. It was out there.

 

You played the race card in the first post of this thread, genius

 

The nonsense you typed about guns and immediately playing the race card? No, it’s all bs

 

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local...in-deadly-beating-near-las-vegas-high-school/

8 teenagers arrested and charged with murder. The state is looking to charge them as adults.

 

Good, charge them all.

Now let’s see what the crybabies complain about.

 

Apparently the police now believe 10 were involved, they are asking for the public's help to identify the other two.

 

Truth? It was all speculation as to why it wasn't a bigger story. And fairly lame speculation at that. You really think if there were a gun involved or if a black teen had been shot to death it'd be a top national story on every outlet?
And you're implying that there hadn't been an arrest yet because the kid was white?

 

I'm not saying there's anything necessarily wrong with speculation, but speculation is not 'truth.'
And I do think your particular claims in this case made no sense. Again, do you really think if he were a black teen shot and killed by another teen that it'd be national news? Because every black teen murdered is a huge story?

 

I don't think they're arguing that a Black teen killed by another Black teen(s) would necessarily be national news. If anything, many conservatives have argued that "Black on Black" crime doesn't get enough attention - I will leave that aside for now, but I think what people are arguing here is that the killing would have been assumed racist (and received more coverage and public outrage) had the teenage victim been Black and the teen mob of killers had been White. That may seem like a minor distinction, but at least that's how I'm interpreting the response to this story. I will say that after all sorts of mass shootings and crimes, I can usually make a decent guess about the race of the perpetrator and/or the victim based upon which media outlets focus on them first.

 

Was this a racial attack?

 

No idea. Would the media and most of the left on here speculate it was race related if it was a black kid who was killed and all the kids who did it were white? Wondering if you will be honest with your answer.

 

I hadn't read that all the attackers were black. Link?

No, I'd probably just lie. That's so cool that you found me out ...

 

To be clear, I think it's a fair question. But the other side of that coin was Tucker and Fox News focusing on a story about a mob of Black folks assaulting a White woman. As the facts came it, it turned out that the woman's boyfriend was Black, and he got into an argument with the group who was standing in their path. The White woman was pushed down but not serious hurt. Her Black boyfriend was beaten and put in the hospital. If I recall, the couple was also reportedly robbed. This was all after Tucker did a story about Democrats wanting a race war and concluding that White people are under attack. I cite that example just to say that lots of these stories are filtered through a partisan lens, particularly when they first break.