# Pitting the Zimmerman trial circus **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419 "2013-07-13T19:53:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/121 "2013-07-14T04:29:00Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What plausible-seeming answers do you come up with? Was that one of them? Happiness that the jurors followed the law? Not wanting the justice system influenced by partisanship and mobocracy? Or, ya know, race card. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Don’t know what board you’re on but out of curiosity I visited glock\_talk (remove the underscore) and looked at the Zimmerman reaction thread and it reads rather differently. That’s it. My pulls were verbatim from p.243 of the Zimmerman Trial Discussion thread. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/122 "2013-07-14T04:29:01Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > All that stuff goes under “litigation costs”. Basically, it’s everything except attorney fees and office overhead. The interns don’t, but they’re all volunteers. Are you saying Florida will pay Zimmerman’s litigation costs? I’d like a cite on that. I know there is such a thing in contract litigation, but not to my knowledge in criminal cases. ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/123 "2013-07-14T04:30:26Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Well, damn, I’ve spent years hanging around on this board establishing my reputation as the board’s racist monster, and now all of a sudden you turn up trying to hog my glory. I retract. You may retain your throne. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/124 "2013-07-14T04:31:16Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > You too, you despicable piece of shit. You and your ilk make the entire world feel like it needs a cleansing. Why don’t all you racist assholes congregate somewhere more to your liking? Maybe Stormfront? I’ve seen my blood spattered on a sidewalk because of animals like Trayvon Martin. You can squeal all you want, but it means nothing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/125 "2013-07-14T04:33:17Z")
> [@BlakeTyner](#): > > I retract. You may retain your throne. Come on, now. These are your people. Embrace them heartily. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/126 "2013-07-14T04:34:37Z")
Haven’t seen this many lib tears since Bush won the second time. To help speed up the racism nosedive, here’s a fun /pol/ post. > [@](#): > > I feel sorry for Tray, no not cause HURR DURR HE WAS JUST A BAYBAY TRAYTRAY, but because of the fact that he spent his entire life trying to be a NO\_LIMITS\_NIGGA but the media ended up making this tough nigga into a Hollister wearing pussy, he must be in rolling in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/127 "2013-07-14T04:36:04Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > I’ve seen my blood spattered on a sidewalk because of animals like Trayvon Martin. You can squeal all you want, but it means nothing to me. Yeah, I’m sure every racist piece of shit has a “real reason” that they’re justified in their idiotic hatred. Go blather to your klan buddies that’ll believe it. Everyone else realizes that whoever splattered your blood should have aimed for more. ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/128 "2013-07-14T04:36:46Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > To help speed up the racism nosedive, here’s a fun /pol/ post. Nitpick: NO\_LIMIT\_NIGGA No “s”. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/129 "2013-07-14T04:37:08Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Haven’t seen this many lib tears since Bush won the second time. > > To help speed up the racism nosedive, here’s a fun /pol/ post. Of course it’s only liberals. Not humans or anything. ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/130 "2013-07-14T04:37:59Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > Of course it’s only liberals. Not humans or anything. Eh, it’s been partisan from the start. What can we expect, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/131 "2013-07-14T04:39:00Z")
> [@Anduril](#): > > George Zimmerman was justified in using deadly force. You can say all you want about George Zimmerman being an asshole (who mentors underpriveleged black kids) but ultimately, it was Trayvon Martin’s actions that lead to his own death. People should grow up and look at the facts of the case. It was clear that George Zimmerman feared for his life at the time of the beating. > > As a total outsider, non-caucasian, non-American, and liberal but not racked with white guilt, I can state this without fear that any charges of racism can stick. Meh. You’re been an anti-black American bigot for years. No mystery there. ---
**Author:** ![Anduril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/132 "2013-07-14T04:42:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Anduril > George Zimmerman was justified in using deadly force. You can say all you want about George Zimmerman being an asshole (who mentors underpriveleged black kids) but ultimately, it was Trayvon Martin’s actions that lead to his own death. People should grow up and look at the facts of the case. It was clear that George Zimmerman feared for his life at the time of the beating. > > As a total outsider, non-caucasian, non-American, and liberal but not racked with white guilt, I can state this without fear that any charges of racism can stick. > [@](#): > > Meh. You’re been an anti-black American bigot for years. > > No mystery there. How predictable and incredibly stupid of you. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/133 "2013-07-14T04:44:41Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Well, damn, I’ve spent years hanging around on this board establishing my reputation as the board’s racist monster, and now all of a sudden you turn up trying to hog my glory. > > Even so, this is a glorious moment. A Florida jury has affirmed our right to use deadly force to defend ourselves from feral proto-humans, and, having twice been the victim of black street violence, I fervently hope there will be yet another wave of Euro-Americans flooding the gun stores to buy the weaponry and munitions needed to deal with the Trayvon Martins and Rodney Kings of our decaying and disintegrating nation. > > The problem is not white racism. > > The problem is black lawlessness and violence. > > Trayvon Martin, rot in Hell. Hey, I read about people like you in history books! Do you have a framed postcard of you at a lynching over the dining room table, or maybe the commemorative charred knuckle bones of some black farmer that was in the wrong place at the wrong time on your mantle? And does time travel make you nauseous? I feel like it would wreck your stomach. ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/134 "2013-07-14T04:45:08Z")
Aight, folks…I’m out of this thread (I don’t spend much time in the pit, anyway.) As I’ve said all along, I had zero emotional attachment to the case, and now the case is over, so it’s been swell! ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/135 "2013-07-14T04:47:18Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > Yeah, I’m sure every racist piece of shit has a “real reason” that they’re justified in their idiotic hatred. Go blather to your klan buddies that’ll believe it. Everyone else realizes that whoever splattered your blood should have aimed for more. Ah, I see. White victims of black violence are of no importance, and so there must be no cries of “No justice, no peace,” when whites suffer racial violence by blacks. Thank you for making it clear that injustice against lower class whites is of no importance to enlightened, progressive intellectuals such as yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/136 "2013-07-14T04:47:34Z")
Anduril, I recall your posts from years back. You have a problem with black Americans. That’s why you’re so enthusiastically pro-Zimmerman here. Zim’s a hothead with a history of trouble with the law. He’ll be in trouble again. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/137 "2013-07-14T04:51:49Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > Hey, I read about people like you in history books! Do you have a framed postcard of you at a lynching over the dining room table, or maybe the commemorative charred knuckle bones of some black farmer that was in the wrong place at the wrong time on your mantle? And does time travel make you nauseous? I feel like it would wreck your stomach. Perhaps you’d prefer a picture of me lying on a sidewalk next to a church while two black thugs beat me half senseless. Have you ever taken a look at the statistics about interracial violence? It’s not blacks who are getting the worst of it. ---
**Author:** ![Anduril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/138 "2013-07-14T04:52:41Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > Anduril, > > I recall your posts from years back. You have a problem with black Americans. That’s why you’re so enthusiastically pro-Zimmerman here. > > Zim’s a hothead with a history of trouble with the law. He’ll be in trouble again. I have a problem with black Americans? 😃 You are incredibly funny. And ridiculous. And stupid. I am not pro-Zimmerman, I’m pro-facts. Fact is, the assailant’s own actions lead to his own death. George Zimmerman was right to defend himself. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/139 "2013-07-14T04:58:11Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Perhaps you’d prefer a picture of me lying on a sidewalk next to a church while two black thugs beat me half senseless. Have you ever taken a look at the statistics about interracial violence? It’s not blacks who are getting the worst of it. Actually, it’s pretty much indisputable that black Americans are getting the worst of crime committed by black Americans. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/140 "2013-07-14T05:10:22Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > Actually, it’s pretty much indisputable that black Americans are getting the worst of crime committed by black Americans. I was talking specifically about interracial crime, but of course that point escaped you. And I guess I might as well add another point that’s going to whizz right over your head – it isn’t whites who have turned our cities into playgrounds for pyschopaths. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419.md?page=8)