All-purpose news and politics thread

[dupont2005]

Why should anyone pay for someones choices? In most cases it's her own doing.

I'm starting to think women should be allowed to vote. If they think they can comprehend anything beyond cooking and cleaning in their pretty little heads I'll play along.

[Cavemold]

Not the same thing...

[dupont2005]

Not the same thing...

Sure it is, women are usually wrong about everything. Why should we have to dedicate so much time trying to teach them to look both ways before they cross the street?

[Cavemold]

If that's how you feel about it.

[Flashpoint]

I'm only one page into this thread and I'm already terrified.

[Iangould]

I'm only one page into this thread and I'm already terrified.

Put Cavemold on ignore and the world is a much less scary place.

[Cavemold]

I'm only one page into this thread and I'm already terrified.

Make your own judgement and it's only the Internet.

[Flashpoint]

Put Cavemold on ignore and the world is a much less scary place.

Cavemold's DC forum posts are usually okay. But I find his avatar disturbing so I try to avert my eyes.

[Cavemold]

My eyes are up here!

[Gordon Smith]

So, how bout lynchings in the 50s? Not that you really have to stop at the 50s for those, but, y'know, good time for them.

If the Tuskegee Institute is to be believed, only a single verified lynching took place in the 1950's.

Correction: Memory played me false. The chart here seems to put the number of victims as six. There may be a couple of incidents which some consider to be lynchings, and others not.

[Iangould]

If the Tuskegee Institute is to be believed, only a single verified lynching took place in the 1950's.

Correction: Memory played me false. The chart here seems to put the number of victims as six. There may be a couple of incidents which some consider to be lynchings, and others not.

IIRC, the foraml legal definition of a lynching involves removing someoen from lawful custody and punishign them for an alleged crime.

So not all lynchings need lead to a death.

[dupont2005]

If the Tuskegee Institute is to be believed, only a single verified lynching took place in the 1950's.

Correction: Memory played me false. The chart here seems to put the number of victims as six. There may be a couple of incidents which some consider to be lynchings, and others not.

How many do you think went unverified?

[Gordon Smith]

IIRC, the foraml legal definition of a lynching involves removing someoen from lawful custody and punishign them for an alleged crime.

So not all lynchings need lead to a death.

A legal definition of lynching was never codified in federal law in the period when lynching was prevalent. A number of states-none of Southern-had anti-lynching laws, but I'm not familiar with them. The Tuskegee Institute, as quoted on Wikipedia, defined lynching like this:

"There must be legal evidence that a person was killed. That person must have met death illegally. A group of three or more persons must have participated in the killing. The group must have acted under the pretext of service to Justice, Race, or Tradition."

[Gordon Smith]

How many do you think went unverified?

I have no idea, and neither does anyone else. Lynchings had went underground by this time (killings took place in secret, victim's remains were concealed), so it is impossible to know how many may have occurred.

[Cavemold]

So there's technically only been one?