# New Wave Lynch Mobs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 29, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216 "2012-03-29T23:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/61 "2012-04-01T20:20:57Z")
Why are we talking about lynch mobs in movies when lynch mobs were a real thing that killed thousands of people? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/62 "2012-04-01T20:24:31Z")
> [@Dufus](#): > > I thought I had explained my use of the phrase “lynch mob” in an earlier post. In case you were bored and looking for thrills elsewhere, I’ll explain it once again: > > The maddened crowd, thirsty for blood, have their flaming torches lit. They are moving down the street, kicking children out of the way. They are throwing rocks thru windows. Some of them in the back are taking advantage of the broken store windows (never mind that)… DEMANDING JUSTICE! The sheriff better get his ass out of the way. (Sorry, better get HER ass out of the way, Diana) The sheriff usually gets plugged during those Texas lynch mob riots, or the leader of the Texas lynch mob gets plugged by the sheriff, and the rest of them go home to smoke crack. > > Does any of this sound vaguely familiar to you Diana?? If it doesn’t, I would suggest Celebrity Sex Symbols on TV right now, cause I don’t think I can type much more… I didn’t buy it the first time, and it doesn’t get any more convincing with repetition. ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/63 "2012-04-01T20:33:05Z")
> [@Mr Pesticide](#): > > Why are we talking about lynch mobs in movies when lynch mobs were a real thing that killed thousands of people? Lynch mobs are STILL killing thousands of people! But no one notices now, because it’s not politically correct to notice! ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/64 "2012-04-01T20:33:44Z")
Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/65 "2012-04-01T20:35:19Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > I didn’t buy it the first time, and it doesn’t get any more convincing with repetition. Thank God that you’re not going to ask for it AGAIN! ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/66 "2012-04-01T20:36:47Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Cite? The evening news would be a good place to start, unless it interferes with Hollywood Idol. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/67 "2012-04-01T20:38:30Z")
Then it should be easy enough for you to produce some examples, unless it interferes with your paranoid fantasizing. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/68 "2012-04-01T20:38:35Z")
Guys, guys, he’s not talking about _those_ lynch mobs from 100 years ago, you know, the ones that everyone learns about in school and commonly associated with the phrase. He’s talking about those _older_ lynch mobs from 1870s Texas, dramatized for fiction, of course. That’s the relevant reference, folks. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/69 "2012-04-01T20:40:27Z")
> [@Dufus](#): > > The evening news would be a good place to start, unless it interferes with Hollywood Idol. I thought it was politically incorrect to notice all of these modern day lynch mobs. If they’re getting noticed on the evening news, as you say, and with apparently regularity, as you imply, then that doesn’t exactly sound like it’s the taboo topic you’re making it out to be. ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/70 "2012-04-01T20:48:47Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Then it should be easy enough for you to produce some examples, unless it interferes with your paranoid fantasizing. So what’s zombie language for “I produced 3 examples in the OP and was labeled a “RACIST” for posting them”… Now you’re asking for MORE EXAMPLES!!! It’s even worse than the sci-fi writers even imagined!! ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/71 "2012-04-01T20:55:47Z")
Examples of thousands of people dying at the hands of lynch mobs? You most certainly did not. ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/72 "2012-04-01T20:58:24Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Examples of thousands of people dying at the hands of lynch mobs? You most certainly did not. Thank you for turning off “Dancing With the Stars” long enough to post that. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/73 "2012-04-01T21:02:05Z")
Thank you for admitting you’ve got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/74 "2012-04-01T21:03:15Z")
Do trolls like corn? ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/75 "2012-04-01T21:07:17Z")
> [@Dufus](#): > > Thanks to everyone for your replies. I asked the same question at a right wing “gun forum”. Despite the ubiquitous accusations of “being racist”, it’s been fun to hear all the answers. > [@Dufus](#): > > I don’t know what is being taught in schools these days. It seems like a statement like “the sky is blue,” and the chant will begin; that’s racist, that’s racist, that’s racist, that’s racist… > > Ask about news events, and the chant begins. > > It’s almost like the old science fiction thrillers are coming true. Let the chant begin! > [@Dufus](#): > > Chanting that’s racist, that’s racist, that’s racist never gets boring to you? Are you a parrot or a human being? Oh wait, I’ll bet that’s racist??? > [@Dufus](#): > > Almost the entire thread has been feedback from people who are in denial that any such thing even exists. But hey, it’s a free country! I asked for people’s thoughts. I’m getting what I asked for. > > It’s kind of disturbing that some of them seem like zombies chanting a political line that they were indoctrinated with in elementary school. (Not to mention any sci-fi connection!) > [@Dufus](#): > > Oh shit, I hope that isn’t racist, too?! > [@Dufus](#): > > Thank you for continuing down the **racist** one track mind set. If I wanted to be a **racist** like you, I could post atrocity black on white crime pictures all day. What would it get me?? I would be called a racist. Jesus Christ, people, is there anyone with a functioning brain left in this zombie world? > [@Dufus](#): > > So what’s zombie language for “I produced 3 examples in the OP and was labeled a “RACIST” for posting them”… Now you’re asking for MORE EXAMPLES!!! > > It’s even worse than the sci-fi writers even imagined!! You know what’s funny about all this? **Dufus** (still so perfect) is the first person in the thread to use the word “racist” or “racism,” and even still, the only other people using the terms are essentially quoting him. No one has called him a racist in this thread. No one has accused him of racism. It’s all just a paranoid right wing fantasy. **Dufus** , why do you make up stories about your oppression? Does it make you feel tough or something? Do you imagine you are proving some kind of point here? It comes across as really silly, to post such an utterly stupid OP, and then follow it up with so much more stupidity, and then, when people fail to be amazed by your ignorance, to pretend you were accused of racism. It makes you look foolish and delusional. Is this how you like to be perceived? As a ranting loon? What part of this charade gives you satisfaction? It’s just so odd, because you clearly want to be seen as dumb. Most people reject that. Or, is this honestly just the best you can do? ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/76 "2012-04-01T21:10:34Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Thank you for admitting you’ve got nothing. What do you want? Pictures of people murdered in black on white crimes? You can’t find that for yourself? Do you want “exterminate whitey” websites? You can’t find that yourself? You want me to do it so you can point you crooked little finger at me? Diana, if this is the most non-boring activity that you can find today, you must not have cable TV. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/77 "2012-04-01T21:13:19Z")
I suppose I could, but you’ve been here long enough to know that if you claim it, it’s your job to cite it. Why would I “point a crooked finger at you” if you produce actual evidence for your claims? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/78 "2012-04-01T21:14:54Z")
> [@Dufus](#): > > What do you want? [QUOTE=DianaG] Examples of thousands of people dying at the hands of lynch mobs. [/QUOTE] Are you being deliberately obtuse? ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/79 "2012-04-01T21:24:12Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > You know what’s funny about all this? > > **Dufus** (still so perfect) is the first person in the thread to use the word “racist” or “racism,” and even still, the only other people using the terms are essentially quoting him. No one has called him a racist in this thread. No one has accused him of racism. It’s all just a paranoid right wing fantasy. > > **Dufus** , why do you make up stories about your oppression? Does it make you feel tough or something? Do you imagine you are proving some kind of point here? It comes across as really silly, to post such an utterly stupid OP, and then follow it up with so much more stupidity, and then, when people fail to be amazed by your ignorance, to pretend you were accused of racism. It makes you look foolish and delusional. Is this how you like to be perceived? As a ranting loon? What part of this charade gives you satisfaction? > > It’s just so odd, because you clearly want to be seen as dumb. Most people reject that. Or, is this honestly just the best you can do? Miz Elizabeth, please calm down. My screen name is in direct opposition to those on this website who think they know everything. In my life, I have learned that the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. In this thread, I am trying to learn what make people act like “zombies”, or “brainless automatons”. Were they indoctrinated from school age to scream RACISM at everything that they don’t know the answer to? Thank you for trying to provide an intelligent answer instead of chanting racism, racism, racism. Bless your heart for trying to help. ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wave-lynch-mobs/617216/80 "2012-04-01T21:44:58Z")
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