# Are you Team Trayvon or Team Zimmerman? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881 "2012-03-26T21:27:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/81 "2012-03-27T04:32:21Z")
Yeah that’s right, we’re all being completely irrational in our desire to see this issue investigate. It’s a lynching, because we are calling for greater scrutiny of the police’s action in investigating the shooting death of an unarmed youth. **Emta** , you caught us, our online petitions and attempts to secure improved transparency is exactly the same as KKK members dragging people out of their homes and murdering them in front of their families. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/82 "2012-03-27T04:34:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There’s a Fuckhead Hall of Fame? And **Chefguy** is in it? Shit, on his strongest fuckhead day, I doubt he even registers 200 milli **Starkers**! Whazza “milli **starker** ”? ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/83 "2012-03-27T04:34:30Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > I think it’s indicative of what great progress we have made as a society that we are now so eager to lynch a non-black person. Fuck justice, we need reparations. You’re behind the times, we lynched the Ramses ages ago. Oh wait… nobody did end up murdering them did they? I guess “lynching” is the wrong word for a situation like this. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/84 "2012-03-27T04:35:30Z")
Geez, I thought I’d seen blood-dancing before, but this thread takes the cake! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/85 "2012-03-27T04:39:50Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > Whazza “milli **starker** ”? Standard metric measurement of fuckheaditude. A one thousandth of a **Starkers**. You run about 780. Impressive. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/86 "2012-03-27T04:40:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Better have a statue of me in the hall. You aren’t on our radar at the moment, but we may have missed something or forgotten something. I will perform a search on your posts to see if we need to save space for you next to Zimmy, Cheffy and that really stupid guy. Stay tuned! ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/87 "2012-03-27T04:51:40Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Standard metric measurement of fuckheaditude. A one thousandth of a **Starkers**. You run about 780. Impressive. No need to run that post check on you after all-- you have just assured yourself of admission. The unit of measurment we use to judge nominees is hairypalm, only one of which is needed to get you in, so you didn’t have to drop that whole bag of them at our door. Oh, and “fuckheaditude”?-- that’s pretty weak snark, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/88 "2012-03-27T05:11:53Z")
Anybody called Trayvon deserves to die. _Trayvon_, for fucks sakes? What were his parents thinking??? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/89 "2012-03-27T05:45:34Z")
I’m on Team Give Florida to Cuba. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/90 "2012-03-27T05:48:03Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Anybody called Trayvon deserves to die. > > _Trayvon_, for fucks sakes? What were his parents thinking??? > > 🆒 They were thinking that they loved their son and that they would be able to watch him grow into adulthood and raise a family of his own. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/91 "2012-03-27T06:24:12Z")
I hope that Zimmerman is curled up in a fetal position covered in his own excrement with the only human contact being family members who drop in and tell him what an absolute failure he is and remind him once more that the world would have been a better place had he either not been born or, failing that, if he had aimed his gun at himself and pulled the trigger instead of pointing it at an unarmed Skittles wielding teenager. I am so hoping somebody takes him into custody for suicide watch because I do not want him taking the coward’s way out but to live for years and not a single moment of it in anything remotely like happiness. I hope every last member of his family who has publicly sworn he’s innocent and every one of his friends who has publicly defended him winds up in poverty from legal fees and I hope they all at some point enter neighborhoods where the local watch feels threatened by them. I hope that if any police incompetence is found that everybody responsible for it is demoted to Dickensian poverty and could scarce be more unemployable if they had 'I FUCK GOATS ’ branded across their forehead. While I understand that a fucked up legal code may currently protect him from arrest and prosecution I think that given what is known and best evidence and what is logical that only a hate filled racist would even attempt to defend the murdering piece of shit on anything other than legal grounds and, like Zimmerman and his friend/family defenders, the world would be a better place without them, and I cannot even imagine what evidence would make his death anything other than a murder other than in a bullshit fucked up legal code sense and in case I haven’t mentioned it I hope that Zimmerman spends the rest of his life in absolute terror and pain. So I guess that would make me Team Trayvon. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/92 "2012-03-27T06:30:55Z")
Don’t hold back, Sampiro, this is the Pit…let it out. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/93 "2012-03-27T06:36:45Z")
Team Jacob! Wooo! ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/94 "2012-03-27T06:52:04Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Hall of fame fuckhead, I think. I hear **colonial** is the only member, but as the sole vote on the nominating committee he’s very excited about organizing a second round of inductions. What qualifications do I need for induction? Sounds pretty exclusive and that appeals to me. …Anyway, from the information available it seems pretty one-sided but maybe some forensic(?) observation on Martin’s knuckles will reveal if he did strike someone before he was shot. Of course even if he had, the circumstances will remain a mystery, and I for one would be tempted to think that Zimmerman would have provoked him. Beyond the incident the media circus is absolutely ridiculous. Zimmerman’s _probably_ a world class idiot and a murderer but do they really need to use an outdated, middle/primary school picture of Martin and Zimmerman’s mugshot? And what is this hoodie bullshit? Your fashion choice does not make you an oppressed minority kids! I’m sure the Man’s out silence your anarchist spirit in your Guy Fawkes mask, but seriously, get a life. Bunch of suburban WASP teenagers wanting anything resembling a legitimate reason to be angry at the world. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/95 "2012-03-27T06:55:30Z")
I haven’t been following the details closely and I’m not sure if the “science” is capable of what TV tells me but: have they been able to tell if Trayvon was shot point blank or from a distance? I thought they could tell that from powder burns or something. Of course, even if the police know they may not have released that detail. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/96 "2012-03-27T06:56:38Z")
I’m white so of course I’m for the non-black guy. Trayvon wears his war wound like a crown. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/97 "2012-03-27T07:09:58Z")
> [@Grey\_area](#): > > …Bunch of suburban WASP teenagers wanting anything resembling a legitimate reason to be angry at the world. What in the name of bleeding Og are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/98 "2012-03-27T07:10:38Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > …and if he didn’t? Considering the fact that Zimmerman has put out two dramatically different versions of the events only a racist or a complete moron would lend any credence to his claims. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/99 "2012-03-27T07:14:00Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > Trayvon wears his war wound like a crown. Yes, I’m sure if he wasn’t dead he’d be on all the talk shows. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881/100 "2012-03-27T07:17:20Z")
God, some of the people posting here are revealing themselves to be racist, hateful fucks. It’s good to know for future reference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-team-trayvon-or-team-zimmerman/616881.md?page=6)