I fail to see what point you are trying to make. First you post a video of a house break-in where apparently the person didn't do anything to help his neighbor. Are you saying that's better than the guys who acted as vigilantes? Becuase it's not. It's as bad a committing the crime becuase by not calling the authorities, andknowingly let it happen, the person becomes complicit in the crime.
Then you say we are snapping to judgment from a 500 word article and that you are trying to see the complexity of the issue, but I see no attempt to share that insight with anyone else.
I'm sorry you don't get my point, but I don't see any point in simply reiterating it.
So are we so politically correct now that we have to bend over backwards to not use the obvious evidence before us to discern events in our world? We have to go out of our way to not call a duck a duck?
Once upon a time, it was intuitively obvious that black people where lazy, inferior, even sub-human. It behooves us not to repeat that mistake -- with anyone.
Do you honestly think that anyone here, at AW, thinks all white people in the south are rednecks?
Did you not notice Yorkist is FROM THESOUTH?
I don't know what people actually believe, but I see quite frequently here in P&CE about how "people from Texas" are this or "people from Mississippi" are that. It irks me because making generalizations about some groups will get you called a racist or sexist or ageist or some-other-ist, while generalizations about other groups is simply "obvious evidence".
The fact is generalizations about ANY group are untrue and, yes, we should be extremely careful about calling a duck a duck because people are not ducks. People are individuals and shouldn't be treated as anything different.
And in case you didn't notice, I'm NOT FROM THE SOUTH, and it doesn't make any difference.