"The Thinking Housewife's" Racial Bias

Dear Fred,

Thanks for your email.

Because I agree with you, I generally refrain from watching "death videos." 

I watched none of ISIS' lethal atrocities. 

However, I was determined to watch North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager pump five bullets into Walter Scott's back in order to learn exactly how this Scott was murdered and how his killer cop behaved after execution.

Despite the questionable casualness with which people watch "death videos," it is likely true that Americans are changing their view of police "brutality" (and miscarriage of justice) because photographic and video documentation clarify these ongoing abominations whereas previously it was much easier - perhaps unavoidable - to believe "The Official Story."

At least for white guys.

Speaking of which, here is an enlightening "parody."

Here's The News Report We Would Be Reading If Walter Scott's Murder Was Not On Video

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/heres-news-report-wed-be-reading-if.html

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Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Miscarriage Of Justice And Misplaced Punishment

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on_20.html

Blacks Arrested For Contraband Twice As Often Though Much Less Likely To Have Contraband

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/blacks-2x-as-likely-to-be-arrested-for.html

Compendium Of Pax Posts On Violent Criminals And Violent Police

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/compendium-of-pax-posts-on-violent.html

Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of U.S. Prison System Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/us-criminal-justice-system-compendium.html

The Caging Of America: Why Do We Lock Up So Many People?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/caging-of-america-why-do-we-lock-up-so.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html

I am persuaded that "what goes unsaid" is often as important - or more important - than what is said. 

Jesus, for example, made no comment on homosexuality or abortion, a rather "odd" teaching method for someone, who - by most theologies - was providing universal moral guidance.

Similarly, The Thinking Housewife has made no mention of suicidal pilot Andreas Lubitz who killed 150 people.

Elsewhere, Laura is tellingly silent about Walter Scott's cold-blooded murder by a clean-cut, All-American white guy.

Here is a list of every Thinking Housewife post concerning murder and mayhem starting the day Lubitz crashed his plane into the Alps. 

Every one of these posts bemoans a dark-skinned villain and/or spotlights white victims on the receiving end of black/brown malice.

Relative to the crimes of Lubitz and Slager, these accounts are "trivial" and statistically insignificant.

The Model Minority: Lab Partner Edition

http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2015/04/the-model-minority-lab-partner-edition/#more-80123

Canadian Consul’s Multicultural Family Ends in Disaster

http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2015/04/canadian-consuls-multicultural-family-ends-in-disaster/

Teen with Donated Heart Dies in Crime Spree

http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2015/04/teen-with-donated-heart-dies-in-crime-spree/

Prisoner Overpowers His Guard and Escapes

http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2015/03/prisoner-overpowers-his-guard-and-escapes/

Profiteering and the “Campus Rape Culture”

http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2015/03/profiteering-from-the-campus-rape-culture/

He Begged for His Life

http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2015/03/he-begged-for-his-life/

Surely The Thinking Housewife is smart enough - and studious enough - to realize that "the fullness of truth" is revealed by rich contextualization and that reliance on cherry-picked shards of Truth is a form of falsehood.

Focusing individual stories -- as if particular anecdotes reveal "the generality" -- makes fundamental mockery of "the Way, the Truth and the Life."

Compendium Of Pax Posts: What's Wrong With Race Relations - Hatred, Cops And The Law

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/compendium-of-pax-posts-whats-wrong.html

The GOP And Obamacare: Ruling By Anecdote

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gop-and-obamacare-governing-by.html

Laura -- and her world view -- are so threatened by Truth that she threatens me with lawsuit to protect her bubble.

Pax tecum

Alan

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:

An issue, unrelated to the circumstances of race, is a question about watching people die. How do you feel about that?

Is death a private moment?   When someone dies in your family, do you invite the neighbors over to watch and maybe a few total strangers who might be curious?

What is shocking to me is that no one is shocked. We're watching a man die, and the watching is much too casual.

Certainly the video is damning evidence of a crime  -- but who needs to see it? Did you need to see it?

Should children see it?

Now that everyone has a camera, do we abandon all attempts at privacy.

Do you know these people -- the Scott family -- did they give you permission to watch their brother die?

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