So, 3 on 1 assault should get them probation?
does in fact get other people in similar situations probation. No speculation.
How exactly are they "politically expedient targets"?
because they are racists, and we are free to look at racists as less than human, and target them with inhuman violations, because 51% of the people are gratified by the spectacle.
Oh wait.. let me guess.. they beat this guy BECAUSE he was mexican.
I think it was actually over some dispute at a diner where the mexican worked.
That doesn't make them victims of "hostile violence" or "politically expedient targets".
does in fact
It makes them violent racists who got long prison terms for beating someone for being mexican.
you are saying the same thing as me, except you are using the political langauge designed to inflame the irrational hatred of out-groups and irrational fear for the "our" safety, and I am using politically neutral language designed to analyze a particular event.
I'd agree they should get shorter sentences than that. I wouldn't agree they should get fucking PROBATION for that. Aaaand.. all this just reinforces what I have been saying about you and Dwarn all along.. if it doesn't happen to white, straight males then it just doesn't matter. For example.. three of your dumbass racist friends decide to gang up on and beat a mexican guy, get caught, and get long jail sentences for it... and you characterize THEM as the victims because they were "politically expedient targets"... never mind how THEY are the ones who actually committed a violent crime based on someone's race.
who were then thrown in jail effectively for the rest of their lives because of the color of their skin and their political opinions. We can turn it around if you wish, and imagine that they were 3 black men, who got in an argument at a bank where a white man worked, and fought and beat him, and then went to jail forever because they were black, and because the victim was white, and because these black people harbor a political sympathy for other black people before concern for whites.
So, I have to ask... do you share the views of your ignorant, violent, racist friends?
I use the term friend loosely- truthfully they all came to my house to attack me. But I knew their hearts, and except the one little malevolent shit-stain, the others were decent guys who fell in with the wrong crowd. They were just teen-angst males that hung around in groups of other young males- totally normal behavior that does not truly denote any kind of existential anti-social menace. Where they grew up, the cops openly joke about harassing minorities, so, they are just operating under the assumption that their elders believe them to be entirely legitimate heirs of their system. It is wrong to punish them forever because one can score political points by doing so.
It is also quite mainstream to do so, and not even questioned by an astoundingly alarming percent among the great many.