# Duke Lacrosse, DSK, Trayvon Martin ...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duke-lacrosse-dsk-trayvon-martin/616952>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 27, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duke-lacrosse-dsk-trayvon-martin/616952 "2012-03-27T15:05:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duke-lacrosse-dsk-trayvon-martin/616952/141 "2014-01-09T00:33:17Z")

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> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> You’ve exaggerated things, . . .

So you claim while avoiding actual evidence that I have exaggerated anything.

> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> I’m a guy who is simply pointing to one specific issue. That’s not “selective attention to some events while ignoring others” - that just means that there’s already a lot of discussion of those issues and I’m interested in discussing this one as well.
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> By contrast, you are a guy who is trying to shut down discussion of an issue, by insisting on canceling it out by raising other issues when it’s being discussed. That would be an example of a guy who not only pays “selective attention to some events while ignoring others”, but is trying to force everyone else to do the same.

I am not trying to shut down any discussion. I am simply noting that your recreational outrage has not even resulted in a point. You claim to want to “discuss” something while doing nothing more than simply claiming that you perceive certain events as “bad.”

Whatever.

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**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duke-lacrosse-dsk-trayvon-martin/616952/142 "2014-01-09T01:14:37Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> So you claim while avoiding actual evidence that I have exaggerated anything.

Correct.

For reasons given.

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> I am not trying to shut down any discussion. I am simply noting that your recreational outrage has not even resulted in a point. You claim to want to “discuss” something while doing nothing more than simply claiming that you perceive certain events as “bad.”

I offered several instances of a phenomenon happening and suggested that it’s worth considering that this can and does happen.

I’m aware that some people are predisposed to reject considering that possibility. The suggestion was not aimed at them.

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> Whatever

Exactly.

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