What's the difference between "thugs and animals" and "rowdy and unruly"?

[Czernobog]

Tear gas and pepper spray hung in the air as police in riot gear descended on Keene, New Hampshire, on Saturday night, trying to disperse a rowdy crowd that brought chaos to the city's 24th annual Pumpkin Festival, CNN affiliates reported. (the emphasis is mine)​

CNN:New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival crowd sets fires, throws bottles

Huot said Keene State students bore some of the responsibility for the unruly behavior, but also suggested that some outside the community had billed the event "as a destination for destructive and raucous behavior."​

So, the protestors in Ferguson, protesting the shooting of Michael Brown, are characterized as "looters and thugs", the police - who sent in fucking tanks - are chastised for responding too passively, and a curfew is imposed. When a group of rioters star throwing things, and injuring people for absolutely no reason at all, they're just college kids being "a bit unruly". That's how it works, huh?

And, lest we think this was just a one-off, let's look also at the "revelers" after West Virginia University beat Baylor, the "celebrators" took to destroying public property, setting shit on fire, and overturning vehicles. hell, even the police called it rioting. How was it reported on Fox? Not a single word.

So, what could possibly be the difference between Ferguson, and these other events?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Was there any looting?

 

[aaronleland]

Was there any looting?

Couldn't resist.

 

[Coloradomtnman]

Skin color, duh!

 

[Asclepias]

Tear gas and pepper spray hung in the air as police in riot gear descended on Keene, New Hampshire, on Saturday night, trying to disperse a rowdy crowd that brought chaos to the city's 24th annual Pumpkin Festival, CNN affiliates reported. (the emphasis is mine)​

CNN:New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival crowd sets fires, throws bottles

Huot said Keene State students bore some of the responsibility for the unruly behavior, but also suggested that some outside the community had billed the event "as a destination for destructive and raucous behavior."​

So, the protestors in Ferguson, protesting the shooting of Michael Brown, are characterized as "looters and thugs", the police - who sent in fucking tanks - are chastised for responding too passively, and a curfew is imposed. When a group of rioters star throwing things, and injuring people for absolutely no reason at all, they're just college kids being "a bit unruly". That's how it works, huh?

And, lest we think this was just a one-off, let's look also at the "revelers" after West Virginia University beat Baylor, the "celebrators" took to destroying public property, setting shit on fire, and overturning vehicles. hell, even the police called it rioting. How was it reported on Fox? Not a single word.

So, what could possibly be the difference between Ferguson, and these other events?

Media twist and skin color.

 

[martybegan]

Alcohol.

 

[aaronleland]

The WVU riot doesn't surprise me. WVU fans have been known to get rowdy after big wins. But a Pumpkin Festival? How the fuck do you turn a fucking PUMPKIN FESTIVAL into a riot? Agree with it or not, at least the protesters in Ferguson had SOMETHING to be angry about.

 

[Asclepias]

 

[R.D.]

Link where CNN called anyone "looters and thugs"

 

[aaronleland]

Alcohol.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Tear gas and pepper spray hung in the air as police in riot gear descended on Keene, New Hampshire, on Saturday night, trying to disperse a rowdy crowd that brought chaos to the city's 24th annual Pumpkin Festival, CNN affiliates reported. (the emphasis is mine)​

CNN:New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival crowd sets fires, throws bottles

Huot said Keene State students bore some of the responsibility for the unruly behavior, but also suggested that some outside the community had billed the event "as a destination for destructive and raucous behavior."​

So, the protestors in Ferguson, protesting the shooting of Michael Brown, are characterized as "looters and thugs", the police - who sent in fucking tanks - are chastised for responding too passively, and a curfew is imposed. When a group of rioters star throwing things, and injuring people for absolutely no reason at all, they're just college kids being "a bit unruly". That's how it works, huh?

And, lest we think this was just a one-off, let's look also at the "revelers" after West Virginia University beat Baylor, the "celebrators" took to destroying public property, setting shit on fire, and overturning vehicles. hell, even the police called it rioting. How was it reported on Fox? Not a single word.

So, what could possibly be the difference between Ferguson, and these other events?

If you don't note the difference between the behavior of the folks in WV and the folks in Ferguson, then son you must be dumber than a box of rocks.

Not to mention, the idiots in WV were idiots for one night and moved on. Not the case with the idiots in Ferguson

 

[Czernobog]

Was there any looting?

So, that is the line? If there is looting, send in the tanks. Violence, and destruction? Meh. Kids'll be kids...

Really?

 

[Czernobog]

The WVU riot doesn't surprise me. WVU fans have been known to get rowdy after big wins. But a Pumpkin Festival? How the fuck do you turn a fucking PUMPKIN FESTIVAL into a riot? Agree with it or not, at least the protesters in Ferguson had SOMETHING to be angry about.

Rowdy? That's the correct description of overturning vehicles, setting them on fire, and destruction of public property? "Rowdy"?

 

[Asclepias]

2 or more black or latino kids its a gang.

2 or more white kids its a social club.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Was there any looting?

So, that is the line? If there is looting, send in the tanks. Violence, and destruction? Meh. Kids'll be kids...

Really?

Yes really.
Destroying businesses and looting them is far worse than having a fire in the street and breaking some bottles.

 

[aaronleland]

The WVU riot doesn't surprise me. WVU fans have been known to get rowdy after big wins. But a Pumpkin Festival? How the fuck do you turn a fucking PUMPKIN FESTIVAL into a riot? Agree with it or not, at least the protesters in Ferguson had SOMETHING to be angry about.

Rowdy? That's the correct description of overturning vehicles, setting them on fire, and destruction of public property? "Rowdy"?

It's amazing how using different words to describe similar situations can change the entire narrative. Anybody who pretends that race wasn't a factor is only lying to themselves.

 

[Rotagilla]

malcolm little, you mean? that malcolm? LMAO.malcolm "x"

The technique of manipulating people's opinions through media and propaganda was around long before malcolm little

Edward Bernays - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Edward Louis Bernays[/B] (November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".[1] He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.


Bernays refined and popularized the use of the press release, following its invention by PR man Ivy Lee, who had issued a press release after the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck.

In Propaganda (1928), Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy:[14]

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
Articles in the journals of opinion, such as the one by Marlen Pew, Edward L. Bernays Critiqued as "Young Machiavelli of Our Time",[15] and the debate between Bernays and Everett Dean Martin in Forum, Are We Victims of Propaganda?, depicted Bernays negatively.[16] He and other publicists were often attacked as propagandists and deceptive manipulators, who represented lobby groups against the public interest and covertly contrived events that secured coverage as news stories, free of charge, for their clients instead of securing attention for them through paid advertisements.[

 

[Moonglow]

2 or more black or latino kids its a gang.

2 or more white kids its a social club.

or a college...

 

[Asclepias]

malcolm little, you mean? that malcolm? LMAO.malcolm "x"

The technique of manipulating people's opinions through media and propaganda was around long before malcolm little

Edward Bernays - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Edward Louis Bernays[/B] (November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".[1] He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.


Bernays refined and popularized the use of the press release, following its invention by PR man Ivy Lee, who had issued a press release after the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck.

In Propaganda (1928), Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy:[14]

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
Articles in the journals of opinion, such as the one by Marlen Pew, Edward L. Bernays Critiqued as "Young Machiavelli of Our Time",[15] and the debate between Bernays and Everett Dean Martin in Forum, Are We Victims of Propaganda?, depicted Bernays negatively.[16] He and other publicists were often attacked as propagandists and deceptive manipulators, who represented lobby groups against the public interest and covertly contrived events that secured coverage as news stories, free of charge, for their clients instead of securing attention for them through paid advertisements.[

Did you start drinking earlier than usual today? What in the hell are you talking about?

 

[heirtothewind]

Tear gas and pepper spray hung in the air as police in riot gear descended on Keene, New Hampshire, on Saturday night, trying to disperse a rowdy crowd that brought chaos to the city's 24th annual Pumpkin Festival, CNN affiliates reported. (the emphasis is mine)​

CNN:New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival crowd sets fires, throws bottles

Huot said Keene State students bore some of the responsibility for the unruly behavior, but also suggested that some outside the community had billed the event "as a destination for destructive and raucous behavior."​

So, the protestors in Ferguson, protesting the shooting of Michael Brown, are characterized as "looters and thugs", the police - who sent in fucking tanks - are chastised for responding too passively, and a curfew is imposed. When a group of rioters star throwing things, and injuring people for absolutely no reason at all, they're just college kids being "a bit unruly". That's how it works, huh?

And, lest we think this was just a one-off, let's look also at the "revelers" after West Virginia University beat Baylor, the "celebrators" took to destroying public property, setting shit on fire, and overturning vehicles. hell, even the police called it rioting. How was it reported on Fox? Not a single word.

So, what could possibly be the difference between Ferguson, and these other events?

If you don't note the difference between the behavior of the folks in WV and the folks in Ferguson, then son you must be dumber than a box of rocks.

Not to mention, the idiots in WV were idiots for one night and moved on. Not the case with the idiots in Ferguson

I have yet to see a post from ''smarter-than-the-average-bear'' that does not call someone a name or contain a personal attack ['..you must be dumber than a box of rocks']. They are nothing more than cheap shots lacking any support or substance.

I agree with the poster who said that skin color and media twist account for the differences in characterization of civil disorder. The actions of a minority group have greater news value in pandering to the fears of the white majority. It is yellow journalism at its worst.