Needs A Spanking
link Boy Charged in Wal-Mart Bias Case in New Jersey – NYTimes.com.
Really? This is news? No less than the NY Times finds this bit of boorish behaviour national news? Some 16 year old kid does something stupid in an ill advised stunt and just because it happens to be in a Wal Mart, it rates a national level tsk tsk? All of a sudden, racism is running amok and Wal Mart is complicit by not having safeguards to stop it?
While no one condones this kind of boorish behavior at any age, not every slight against minorities is national news. The media continues to push the PC agenda by this kind of selective sensationalist reportage. Consider some of the lyrics in most rap songs, which contain much more inflammatory language directed at blacks, whites as well as vulgar misogynistic references. This kind of stuff is celebrated as art and people make money from it. Far from being intemperate adolescents, the artistes who inflict this stuff on society actively create this kind of crapola, the more offensive, the better.
In the Wal Mart incident, would there have been as much outrage if the miscreant was a black teenager getting on the PA and telling all whites to leave the store? It may have rated a mention in the Gloucester County bugler next to the bake sales ads. It is also doubtful that the kid would be facing a year in jail as a consequence. What if it was a gay person telling all non gays to leave the store? Stupid and asinine behaviour of course, but hardly a federal case.