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Originally Posted by Igottago
In a nation where people are openly stating things like "there's a problem in this country - muslims" and not being challenged on it, people really think this incident is being blown out of proportion? Really?
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1. People are being challenged on that and rightly so. They are immediately identified as racists and broadly pilloried for it.
2. Yes. This is fairly apt from that article linked up there:
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I think the whole event – and our collective response, with everybody up to the President chiming in, says a whole lot about us. We don’t care that none of us were there and knows what happened, we jump to conclusions and assume we’re experts. We care about the story, but we don’t care about the actual facts. {...} We like to play social justice warrior on our Facebooks and Twitters, posting memes and headlines without digging in behind the sensationalism, winning bonus sensitivity points in the forms of likes and re-tweets. Once group-think kicks in, we rally around hash tags and start shouting moral outrage in a deafeningly loud national chorus.
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That seems to be what this thread is about.