"The beating COULD be racially motivated." - I'm over the double-race standard in America.

[you_with_the_face]

@Chief_Pedant

I suspect whoever made the “50% more likely to be violently victimized by blacks” claim would not be mollified by the statistics in the way you presented them for precisely the reasons I have laid out.

They wouldn’t be mollified because you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into to begin with.

[Uzi]

@lissener

Yeah, it’s not possible that the kid getting waled on just happens to be one of those kids who always gets waled on.

Oh, well. That’s okay then…

[Richard_Parker]

I skimmed the thread and didn’t see it posted, but my apologies if it has been.

Limbaugh has blamed this on Obama:

It’s Obama’s America, is it not? Obama’s America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama’s America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering[.]

So we’ve gone to full-on race-baiting.

[Chief_Pedant]

I have only heard snippets of Mr Limbaugh but if that’s an accurate quote, what a twit. As if the President had something to do with tacitly approving it. It is my general impression that the election of Mr Obama has simmered things down a bit. I certainly hope so.

[Richard_Parker]

A link to the recording.

[Miller]

@Lust4Life

You know whats going to happen now don’t you?

The poor sod who received the beating will now have everyone going around saying “Of course you know he’s Gay don’t you”?

Your comments sans "This only gut feeling,unfounded in fact"Etc.etc. will do the rounds on the net aided and abetted by the perps and their friends and families and the unfortunately gullible many who see anything on the net as being written in stone will totally believe it to be true even if all other evidence to the contrary is true.

I think you’re vastly overestimating the cultural penetration of the SDMB.