Study those facial expressions very closely. Look at what’s happening here, because this is so indicative of the mindset of racists.
You look at most criminals at their sentencing, you tend to see either resignation, or remorse. There is neither here.
This is shock. This is disbelief. They did monstrous, horrifying things to innocent people, while fully believing that they had an absolute and unquestionable right to do those things.
When a guy robs a gas station, he knows it’s a crime. He’s simply reasoning that committing this crime is better for him than the alternatives. He knows it’s a risk. He knows he will be punished if he is caught.
But these people saw no risk in what they were doing. They believed that the world protect them and celebrate their actions. They believed that it was their right and their imperative to terrorize people of colour.
Yup, those are the faces of finding out. What they did was monstrously evil, threatening to kill kids because they weren’t the white colour. I imagine he’s probably realizing as well that he’s going to be beaten a lot in jail for this. Given the incarceration rate of PoC being higher there’s going to be a welcome for him he’ll regret if they don’t immediately put him into solitary confinement. His life isn’t just ruined, he may very well die in prison.
The woman has fully disassociated at this point, she’s just got the “going through the motions” look of someone who had the worst news of their life handed to them and don’t know how to process it.
He’ll probably get a bunch of Nazi tattoos in prison.
The fact that he will essentially now be forced to do that in order to survive prison really is an indictment of the system. How are people supposed to rehabilitate when not joining a gang is likely to get them killed?
I’m not saying this guy is necessarily rehabilitatable, you have to have a particularly brainless mindset to even do this in the first place but in general it should be possible for people to improve in prison, otherwise what’s the point, we might as well go back to public punishment and executions, since that’s effectively what prison has now become. Minimum security prisons are probably closer to the ideal, but that’s obviously not an option for all inmates.
Prison in the USA has always been a punishment, they tried to say “rehabilitation” for a period to change their image and gave up.
her prison experience will be a lot different then his.
I read her very differently, but deciphering facial expressions never was my strong suit. To me her face looks indifferent to the situation.
Idoubt they found out anything. they are just confronted with the consequences.
The woman is “I’ll get out of this on appeal.”
Good points. And they aren’t wrong if you look at how the country has changed negatively since Trump brought racism and hatred back.
brought back is a bit generous, if not naive… he heightened it though for sure; created a permission structure.
The notion that Trump brought those things back is part of the exact problem I’m highlighting.
They never went away. America continues to be a deeply racist country, the kind of country that make people like this not only a possibility, but an inevitability.
Sad but true.
Well written and very true.
I honestly can’t imagine thinking this is what one wants to do with their time. Like, I accept that I can’t understand this sort of racism and such, but like, even if I was a bigot I can’t imagine deciding that what I’m going to do with one of my afternoons is drive around threatening a child’s birthday party.
But also, it amazes me that white Americans manage to feel aggrieved by black Americans even today. We’re the ones who keep fucking them over not the other way around.
the term is “radicalized” but it’s used so often it’s lost all meaning. I’ll bet good money these fucks were consuming conservative media, eventually one or both of them reached the tipping point where they basically thought they were soldiers in a day-to-day war, they feel emboldened because there are so many like-minded people bubbling up these days, they felt like they had a big community behind them thanks to the parasocial effects of conservative media.
These people obviously didn’t grow up right, but absent today’s fucked up hate pipeline that is conservative (read: almost all) media, I doubt they’d have been radicalized enough to do this.
It does show how right we were over the past decades, warning that latent racism had not ceased but instead was simmering under the surface of Everytown America.
For real turn on a conservative radio station every now and then to hear just completely unhinged bullshit. They jack that retard muscle hard on those stations
Same everywhere, the world is doomed!!!
I think you’ve put the cart before the horse, sorry to yell at clouds but I was raised in a “small town” and I can tell you that racism was rampant long before the media became so invasive (pre-internet).
They’re not trying to influence as much as they are chasing the dollar, they are catering to a big market. These people have always thought they were race warriors, and holy at that.
And this is why they want to defund NPR, poison Wikipedia, and enshrine Twitter in its place.
Can’t manufacture outrage with so many pesky fact checkers.
Don’t give this too much attention or Trump will pardon them.
If it’s state charges he can’t pardon them. He only has federal pardon powers.
As if that small detail would stop the orange turd
Too true, nobody seems inclined to actually do anything to stop his illegal behavior.
What about Georgia’s governor? Are they shitty?
He is, but I don’t believe he’s stupid. Pardoning those two would create a bigger impetus to flip the state. Especially in a climate now where people are already quite fed up with republicans.
So what they have to do is commit more crimes until it’s bumped up to a federal case. Like do the same thing but in a national park. They better get on that real fast.
This sums up the left so perfectly.
Which part? Opposing racism? Consequences for criminals? Feel free to elaborate
Why do you think pleading with the left to not pay attention is an opposition to racism or a consequence. Please explain.
Why do you think ignoring problems will make them go away? Are you a fucking toddler? Pretending not to see it won’t do anything to stop Trump from finding out about it
Exactly 👌
That is literally my point
You don’t have a point
Getting some basic reading skills. Don’t worry about engaging with this stuff until then
I assume this is a historic post and not anything that’s happened recently.
Looks like 2017.
So did they get pardoned by Trump or not?
Looks like state charges so Trump can’t pardon them even if he wanted to.
🤣🤣🤣
“Armed and threatening to kill”
That adds an entirely worse facet to it than the initial text lets on.
Those pictures show frustration with the punishment in the same way a toddler does. These people are messed up.
it’s a shame they weren’t tried as terrorists.
Then deported to El Salvadore
The big tough alpha MAGA cries when faced with the legal repercussions of his crimes.
Classic. I savor the Schadenfreude as I would the finest steak and lobster.
Hell yea. Gotta make the racists afraid again.
And ppl say that women are emotional.
that dude knows he is fucked.
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I can’t threaten people with a gun? I thought Trump fixed things”
The best part was when he cried like a baby.
He doesn’t need to worry, his El Presidente Trump will pardon him in no time.
His cry face is so comical and forced. It’s not even genuine. Even has very outwardly visible psychopathic tendencies, besides the actions.
I’m thinking that’s his face being caught in time, where there was actually motion. Those eyebrows do really look sad and remorseful. But I don’t gaf. They deserve the punishment.
He’s not sad he did it, he’s sad he got consequences
Bet you that’s the case. Could be both, hopefully.
I dunno there’s something about his face that seems like he’s spent his whole life copying emotion, not actually feeling them, it’s a pretty convincing copy, I agree, but it reads disingenuous to me. Does he actually have tears, because that’s a classic tell, psychopaths will pull the “cry face” like they’re crying, and wipe at their face, as if there’s tears, but there isn’t tears. I’m betting he’s trying to emotionally provoke a lighter sentence. I don’t think he’s sad at all. I would bet his predominant feeling would actually be anger.
There’s also our bias to consider. I saw his face before I read what they did, and his face looked perfectly genuine to me. Also crying can start before tears show, so there isn’t definitive proof here obviously.
But yeah, what your gut tells you could also be perfectly true as well!
Yeah, I saw the face before I read anything, it was his face that told me he’d done something fkd up. I notice not many people can tell faked emotions. I don’t think I’m special, in that I can, I just had a very close up, long lasting education on it, that took me nearly 20 years to click on to, so maybe I’m actually slow on the uptake. But now, I can’t unsee it, now I can spot a faked emotion, in a nanosecond.
I’m usually pretty sensitive to that as well. “As an empath” or whatever. 😆 I just don’t feel like there’s enough to go on from this freeze frame. It looks super faked as a picture, I will agree(!), I just can’t be sure what’s going on if we had video, you know? That’s all I got. 😁
