Noose does not equal lynching, it equals hanging. I consider myself very sensitive and sympathetic to the black plight, and those 4,743 lynchings are a national scar and tragedy. However, there were 25,270 suicides by hanging between 2005 and 2014 (edit: just in the US), 79.9 percent of which were white males. You can twist numbers to fit any point but the ones you’re arguing don’t bridge the logical gap.
I’m not saying suicides carry the same weight as lynchings, obviously. Im just saying that lynchings make up a tiny percentage of noose-related deaths. Five times as many suicides just in that recent 9 year data pool, over 60,000 hangings of European “witches,” and hanging has been a primary method of execution since Ancient Rome...and still continues to be in parts of the world. It’s just ridiculous to act like a picture of a noose is exclusive to any demographic or representative of lynching, which accounts for less than 1% of historic noose usage.
So, if it had been a gas chamber reference, should Jewish people have been offended? Millions of them were killed in Nazi concentration camps by that method. Your point would be more relevant if the post had any racial references at all, but it doesn't. Those offended by it are being hyper-sensitive and/or looking for ways and reasons to be offended.
Noose does not equal lynching, but it implies lynching to POC. Non POC and POC have very different experiences in America, both personally and within their family. POC have a different point of view when it comes to lynching especially if it is something that occurred to someone in their family, and they are aware of that history. Why would a non POC argue with a POC about how they should feel about lynching or slavery for that matter? lynchings AND murders of POC happened in this generation, so it is not that long ago. Emmett Till would be 79 this year, if he were not killed when he was 14 years old, and he wasn't lynched (hung from a tree).
OK Candace Owens. You and I are the same age. How can you or I invalidate this young mans or his families feelings? He is from Mississippi, and his family may have a different experience as it relates to lynching. We don't know, but to say that HE is pussified is out of order. You built a hill and was ready to die on it for Reggie Grimes, and posted long diatribes if anyone disagreed with you. Are you pussified?
No, the point IS that neither scenario (the actual tweet or the hypothetical I proposed) had any racial or anti-semitic tones, at all. Just an image that someone has to go searching for a reason to be offended by either.
