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nycfan said:
I lived in NY in the 1990s and was surprised when I visited NC to learn a serial killer had been arrested in Charlotte in 1994 (or maybe ‘95?) because it got no noticeable coverage in The NY Times or even the NY tabloids (at least on the main pages (front and Page Six) I would see people holding in the subway).

I do think it is an editorial choice now not to at least cover the politicization of this case …
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Yeah, I see no reason why the NYT would run a story on a Charlotte murder for the purpose of reporting on the murder itself. The national headline here is politicization of the case.
 
PandemicBlue said:
You've become lost in your hate. No matter what Trump does, good for the country or bad, you and yours are against it. How weak-minded must someone be in order to be so totally manipulated by a political party?
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Donald Trump has reshaped the Republican Party – and more generally US conservatism – to an extent and in ways that were unthinkable in 2015, when he first emerged as a serious candidate for the presidential primaries. To understand that, we only have to get back to 2012, when the Republican consensus on issues like free trade and immigration was literally opposite to what it is now. Back then, the party supported free trade without reservations and recognised a need for (controlled) immigration. Meanwhile, the Bush family held significant sway, with Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and son and brother of the last two Republican presidents, considered a frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination.

Fast forward to the present, and the Republican Party has undergone a dramatic shift under Trump’s influence. Today, being pro-free trade or pro-immigration is almost unthinkable for a Republican candidate in any primary. In the same way, the foreign-policy outlook of the party has drastically changed: dominated by hawks and neo-conservatives in the past, it is now much more influenced by isolationist and inward-looking imperialist elements (those have always existed within the party, but had been marginal in the past, in particular during the George W. Bush years in the early 2000s). Much like it previously did with the Bush family, the party now aligns more closely with Trump’s vision and family influence – exemplified by the personal loyalty tests that are now required for any would-be candidate for office to subscribe to in order to have the president’s support. This is not to say that everything has changed. The Republican Party remains socially conservative, advocating for example anti-abortion policies and low direct taxes. Seen from this angle, the litmus test of what makes (or does not make) one a conservative has not changed. However, Trump has reshaped the party’s priorities and values in significant ways, and will continue to do so.

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UNCatTech said:
What has he done that's good?

Even in areas where we might agree, his methodologies are horrible and he's simply a bad person.

I'm trying to recall, but I do believe there were a couple of things he did that many on the left agreed with.

But beyond politics, trump is just a piece of shit. Even if he were the worlds best leader, actually stopped wars, actually fixed the economy, etc. he would still be a piece of shit. There's simply no changing that he's a piece of shit.

List a few redeeming qualities he possesses?
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Tech, you made it too hard. I can’t come up with one redeeming quality that horrid excuse for a human being has.
By the way, hope everything works out.
 
Usually the deaths of pretty young woman draw lots of attention. This time..,not so much. Wonder why. My guess is the race of the
killer.

Where are all the libs with Ukrainian flags in their headers? No 5 months of riots or golden caskets?
 
Ramrouser said:
Usually the deaths of pretty young woman draw lots of attention. This time..,not so much. Wonder why. My guess is the race of the
killer.

Where are all the libs with Ukrainian flags in their headers? No 5 months of riots or golden caskets?
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Um … that’s one of the main reasons this case is now drawing national attention. But it’s not really a national story. I can’t think of many murders in Charlotte that have made national headlines. Why should this one? Because the victim was pretty?

And what does the Ukrainian thing have to do with anything? It’s not like she was targeted for being Ukrainian.
 
ZenMode said:
Just checked a minute ago and the New York Times still does not appear to have an article on this story.

I wonder how many articles they had regarding Daniel Penny.
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NY Times ran their first story on the Decarlos Brown situation:

A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right​


A Google search of NY Times and George Floyd (Minnesota) returned pages upon pages of results, as did a search for NY Times and Trayvon Martin (Florida). We’ll see how this story compares when all is said and done.
 
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Icky Mettle said:
Um … that’s one of the main reasons this case is now drawing national attention. But it’s not really a national story. I can’t think of many murders in Charlotte that have made national headlines. Why should this one? Because the victim was pretty?

And what does the Ukrainian thing have to do with anything? It’s not like she was targeted for being Ukrainian.
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It’s probably a self-fulfilling prophecy. White on black crime, especially murder, automatically garners mass attention and snowballs on its own momentum, even when race isn’t a factor like George Floyd’s death.

Daniel Penny, when all is said and done, will receive significantly more coverage despite the fact that he wasn’t a known criminal and had no intentions of killing anyone.

Not much different than George Floyd vs Tony Timpa, which were damn near identical cases, except the cops and victim were the same race.

I am never the “breaking story“ poster here (unless I missed something), but was in this case.

Had the races been reversed, I suspect a) I wouldn’t break the story and b) it would have its own thread and been 3 pages deep before I even saw it.
 
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Did the NYT report on Ralph Hansel killing Ja’Keem Williams?
Did anyone here make a post or thread about it? Anyone familiar with this case?
I suspect the answer is “no” to all three questions.
 
ZenMode said:
It’s probably a self-fulfilling prophecy. White on black crime, especially murder, automatically garners mass attention and snowballs on its own momentum, even when race isn’t a factor like George Floyd’s death.

Daniel Penny, when all is said and done, will receive significantly more coverage despite the fact that he wasn’t a known criminal and had no intentions of killing anyone.

Not much different than George Floyd vs Tony Timpa, which were damn near identical cases, except the cops and victim were the same race.

I am never the “breaking story“ poster here (unless I missed something), but was in this case.

Had the races been reversed, I suspect a) I wouldn’t break the story and b) it would have its own thread and been 3 pages deep before I even saw it.
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When did you break this story here?
 
ZenMode said:
It’s probably a self-fulfilling prophecy. White on black crime, especially murder, automatically garners mass attention and snowballs on its own momentum, even when race isn’t a factor like George Floyd’s death.

Daniel Penny, when all is said and done, will receive significantly more coverage despite the fact that he wasn’t a known criminal and had no intentions of killing anyone.

Not much different than George Floyd vs Tony Timpa, which were damn near identical cases, except the cops and victim were the same race.

I am never the “breaking story“ poster here (unless I missed something), but was in this case.

Had the races been reversed, I suspect a) I wouldn’t break the story and b) it would have its own thread and been 3 pages deep before I even saw it.
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On the other hand, Fox News loves black/brown on hot white/asian girl crime, particularly if it happens on vacation in another country. It is their bread and butter.

I agree that this attack in Charlotte should be garnering more attention, but the sensationalization of “your women aren’t safe with them,” has existed in America since Mary Rowlandson’s journal on captivity spawned an entire genre of semi true, and often extremely false, narratives.
 
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Slightly off topic, but if you haven’t read Sherman Alexis’s short piece Captivity, check it out. It is one of the best stories about the complexities of race In America that I have ever seen.

 
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No surprise there. "BoJo" in many ways was a UK version of Trump - more intelligent, certainly, but also a spotlight-craving attention hog, boor, and bully who loved insulting and taunting opponents and playing the clown in public. That he was corrupt as hell as well shouldn't really shock anyone.
 
ChileG said:
When did you break this story here?
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Video shows fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte light rail – stirring debate on crime in major US cities​


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Gruesome video shows a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee getting stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train – a case that has turned into a flashpoint as the Trump administration vows to crack down on crime in large, predominantly Democratic cities.

The unprovoked attack happened shortly before 10 p.m. August 22, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. A caller said a woman was stabbed in the throat.

The victim, Iryna Zarutska, is a...
 
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