Moderation Note: Discussion of Trayvon Martin brings all the racist fuckwits out of the ether. Do not feed the trolls. Just ignore any racist comments and I’ll be by in a bit to delete them; if you don’t ignore them I’ll feel obligated to leave them up so everyone can know what you’re responding to. Also, TW for discussion of George Zimmerman being a rapist fuckwit.
Fuck that racist, murdering cockfaced piece of motherfucking shit passing itself off as a human being.
…Sorry, I’ll try to be a bit more polite for the rest of this article, but I just had to get that out. Fuck George Zimmerman, that murderering asshole. I hope he realizes exactly what he’s done and it eats him up for the rest of his life. (Okay, I’ll stop being angry now.)
Apparently, Sean Hannity interviewed Zimmerman! I never expected Hannity to be the least awful person on the Hannity show.
It’s the pile of disingenuous shite one would expect, of course. Apparently it was God’s plan that Trayvon would die! I don’t believe in God, but it’s my opinion that any deity whose plans hinge on the coldblooded murder of a black boy carrying Skittles and ice tea is not worthy of worship. Zimmerman also disapproves of the way people have rushed to judgment. “Why are people assuming I murdered a black boy because of my racist sexism,” he says, “just because I am a racist and sexist who murdered a black boy! Injustice!”
We also get to learn exciting details about the crime. Trayvon was doing suspicious things like standing in the rain and not making an effort to get out of it, and being in someone’s yard instead of on the sidewalk. I assume my white, passes-for-female ass will be arrested for walking in the rain ANY DAY NOW. I mean, the other option would be that he’s a racist and a sexist, and that is obviously untrue. He is against all people standing in the rain in people’s yards! Know, all you people, that standing in the rain in people’s yards is a death penalty crime now!
Furthermore, when Zimmerman approached him, Trayvon just started attacking him! Out of nowhere! You know how those black men do. They’re just wild beasts running about attacking innocent Hispanic dudes. This literally happens all the time. Zimmerman wouldn’t lie to you!
Finally, we’ve discovered that Zimmerman is, in addition to his many fine sterling qualities, a rapist. (Or, at least, he didn’t deny molesting a woman against her will from age 6 through 16.) He has said that it says something that one of the people who has accused him of being a racist also accused him of molesting her! Yes, it says you are a rapist and also a racist! Also, you totally got arrested for DV once! There is lots of evidence here that he doesn’t respect people’s consent and is prone to solving problems with violence, is my point. Zimmerman: not a very nice fellow! Also a racist!
> Fuck that racist, murdering cockfaced piece of motherfucking shit passing itself off as a human being No matter what Zimmerman did or believes, he is still a human being. Dehumanizing humans for their acts or thoughts first of all is not something I would have expected from this blog and second of all only leads to violence against those people. Example (to avoid the obvious Godwin): Prisons in the US; after all, the people incarcerated there are (most of the time) criminals and “therefore” “not humans”. (Of course the belief that it’s ok to do to non-humans what is… Read more »
Finally, we’ve discovered that Zimmerman is, in addition to his many fine sterling qualities, a rapist. (Or, at least, he didn’t deny molesting a woman against her will from age 6 through 16.) He has said that it says something that one of the people who has accused him of being a racist also accused him of molesting her! Yes, it says you are a rapist and also a racist! Also, you totally got arrested for DV once! There is lots of evidence here that he doesn’t respect people’s consent and is prone to solving problems with violence, is my… Read more »
Must be nice to get an hour of national TV time to make your case for why you murdered an unarmed kid… BEFORE your trial.
Just one of the perks of having a huge angry Confederacy backing you, I guess.
OH. MY GOD.
This is considerably worse than the normal tragic racism. I really wonder whehter that’s an apologistic or prophetic ‘God’s Plan’ though. OOOOOO NOOOOOOOO.
What idiot is this guy’s lawyer?
Shut up shut up shut up. Not only is it the tasteful thing to do, it’s almost always the best way to avoid handing your legal opposition to rope with which to hang you.
He had some lawyers.
They quit.
He was being too much of a fuckwit for them to handle.
A friend of mine put forth that this recent media endeavor is weird attempt at a self-inflicted “poison the well” strategy on Zimmerman’s part. If a judge feels like Zimmerman can’t get a fair trial due to the jury pool being familiarized with the proceedings through media exposure and thus unable to be impartial, it throws a wrench into the trial.
Honestly, it wouldn’t entirely surprise me.
Sometimes people try to defend Zimmerman, which is all kinds of messed up, but there’s usually one rebuttal that nobody can refute.
The 911 dispatcher said “We do not need you to follow him.” He did so anyway. Regardless of what his intentions or feelings may have been, he is guilty of manslaughter at the very least.
Was it a hate crime? Maybe. Was it racially motivated? Possibly. But what matters here is that Zimmerman followed a young boy for no legitimate reason, and that boy is now dead.
“The 911 dispatcher said “We do not need you to follow him.” He did so anyway. Regardless of what his intentions or feelings may have been, he is guilty of manslaughter at the very least.” There are a lot of reasons to not like Zimmerman. This isn’t one of them. First, the dispatcher didn’t say “do not follow him”, the dispatcher said “we do not need you to follow him”. The police and co. do not need me to go to the store. The police do not need me to bake homeless children cookies. However, if I go to the… Read more »
@ Lamech: Oh, BS. When a police dispatcher tells you, “We don’t need you to do X”, your first thought should not be “I’m going to do X!”, whether it’s bake cookies for orphans or follow a suspicious figure. You’re arguing SEMANTICS (and I’m an English major; I FIRMLY BELIEVE in arguing on the merit of semantics when the issue is a semantic issue, which is to say, the specific and literal meaning of the parsed phrases actually technically matters; this is NOT one of those cases). A representative of law enforcement told him to stand down; there is no… Read more »