Lynching

[desecration]

Remember the biggest mass lynching event in American history:

A mob of tens of thousands of angry men surrounded a New Orleans jail, shouting angry slurs and calling for blood. By the time they were done, 11 men would be dead—shot and mutilated in an act of brutal mob violence that took place in front of a cheering crowd. It was 1891, and the crowd was about to participate in one of the largest lynchings in U.S. history.

Nearly 5,000 lynchings—vigilante murders that included shootings, hangings and other forms of mob “justice”—were recorded in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Most of their victims were African American men. But though the New Orleans lynch mob was driven by bigotry, its targets weren’t Black people.

They were Italian Americans. March 14, 1891, would go down in history as one of the darkest moments in the United States’ long history of anti-Italian discrimination.

 

[Bn2f]

What's your point here other than giving a history lesson that most should already know?
If your point is, as I suspect, making this a competition between various occurrences of horrific discrimination then you're an ass.
If it's a call for America to learn from itself and show humanity and legal respect to refugees at the southern border instead of putting razor wire in the Rio Grand then Yay! for you.

 

[ll74]

What's your point here other than giving a history lesson that most should already know?
If your point is, as I suspect, making this a competition between various occurrences of horrific discrimination then you're an ass.
If it's a call for America to learn from itself and show humanity and legal respect to refugees at the southern border instead of putting razor wire in the Rio Grand then Yay! for you.

It's just letting us know that whites were lynched too.

 

[desecration]

You both guessed wrong, but you're both more interested in gotcha points than discussion, so... yeah.

 

[ll74]

You both guessed wrong, but you're both more interested in gotcha points than discussion, so... yeah.

Of course

 

[Bn2f]

You both guessed wrong, but you're both more interested in gotcha points than discussion, so... yeah.

Great! So ass it is.

 

[Treeview]

There is a difference between hanging and lynching.

In 12/62 thirty eight Sioux chiefs were hanged in Mankato MN. Largest hanging in US history. Do your own reading on it.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Serious question about lynching: If elected, is The Donald going to hang Mike Pence?

 

[UWERETHINKINGIT]

What's your point here other than giving a history lesson that most should already know?
If your point is, as I suspect, making this a competition between various occurrences of horrific discrimination then you're an ass.
If it's a call for America to learn from itself and show humanity and legal respect to refugees at the southern border instead of putting razor wire in the Rio Grand then Yay! for you.

It’s a very lazy connection to link despicable discrimination, hatred, and violence against other human beings, based on race, no matter the race, to having a secure border.

 

[marriedman1973]

What's your point here other than giving a history lesson that most should already know?
If your point is, as I suspect, making this a competition between various occurrences of horrific discrimination then you're an ass.
If it's a call for America to learn from itself and show humanity and legal respect to refugees at the southern border instead of putting razor wire in the Rio Grand then Yay! for you.

He is not an ass, he is a massive twat

 

[vietato]

 

[ll74]

This thread discussion is obviously what the OP was seeking.

 

[desecration]

I think it's a valuable historical event to consider as we look at our assumptions regarding past waves of immigration and integration.

 

[ll74]

I think it's a valuable historical event to consider as we look at our assumptions regarding past waves of immigration and integration.

Elaborate

 

[RoryN]

This is a bonafide sign that we're irritating the seething little racist. The cracks are getting far bigger.

 

[Bray123]

Serious question about lynching: If elected, is The Donald going to hang Mike Pence?

If he can stay awake long enough.

 

[cdstefi]

That is the most disgusting, debased, and blatantly racist thing thing I've yet read on PB, and that's going some.

You really need to FOAD, or at the very least analyse why you think like this. You really believe that skin colour is the only and sole determinant of how people behave? Fucks like you honestly make me ashamed to be white.

 

[vietato]

That is the most disgusting, debased, and blatantly racist thing thing I've yet read on PB, and that's going some.

You really need to FOAD, or at the very least analyse why you think like this. You really believe that skin colour is the only and sole determinant of how people behave? Fucks like you honestly make me ashamed to be white.

Yes, blacks are MORE criminally prone, and you are a depraved loon who doesnt even know what IT is

 

[cdstefi]

Yes, blacks are MORE criminally prone, and you are a depraved loon who doesnt even know what IT is

Fuck off. Your opinion is literally not worth the shit I flush down the pan.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

That is the most disgusting, debased, and blatantly racist thing thing I've yet read on PB, and that's going some.

You really need to FOAD, or at the very least analyse why you think like this. You really believe that skin colour is the only and sole determinant of how people behave? Fucks like you honestly make me ashamed to be white.

Look at yourself you little pansy. White people are ashamed of fags like you.

 

[desecration]

You really believe that skin colour is the only and sole determinant of how people behave?

Technical correction: race is not skin color.

 

[cdstefi]

Technical correction: race is not skin color.

Splitting hairs dude. You know what's being said here.

 

[desecration]

The exact origins of Lynching - the mob-killing of a suspected criminal - are obscure, but they can be narrowed down to three Irish or Irish-American men.

The earliest - and most far-fetched - potential origin dates back to Galway in the 15th-Century.

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-origins-lynching

Well... who knew?

 

[ll74]

Obviously we should discuss the greater meaning of the confederate flag next.

 

[desecration]

Considering we are about to fight the Civil War again, that's probably true.