Discussion: Columnist Deletes Blog Post Calling Michael Brown An 'Animal' Who Had To Be Put Down

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Nothing to discuss. He’s out, or your paper is complicit.

Out.

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funny how he called the black guy an animal who needed to be put down, but said nothing at all about the pumpkin rioters.

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TrUE aMERicaN JOURnaLIST, SPEakING truth TO POwer, PUT DOWN by Libtard POLItical COrrectness.

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If McElhinny doesn’t fire Surber for this, then McElhinny is giving tacit approval to Surber’s racist maundering.

Surber is well-known for his far-right views, and McElhinny should have anticipated something as vile as the post Surber has deleted.

And when will these knuckleheads realize that deleting a post doesn’t make it disappear—and doesn’t mean you didn’t post it to begin with?

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That’s right-wing courage it is.

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sorry dude…racism is indelible.

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Did he call the ARMED kid that shot people at his high school, killing two and then himself an “animal”? Just wondering.

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“Firearms enthusiast”

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I hope you don’t let the paper off the hook and continue to check on his status. However, considering he is still blogging and getting published in the Charleston Daily Mail it appears the decision has already been made. Sad, embarrassing and pathetic.

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“Animal.” It’s like “thug.” A word that white racists who think they aren’t racist claim they’d apply to any young male accused of wrongdoing even though they never, ever seem to apply it to anyone who isn’t black or Latino. And that’s kind of the tell: it’s not a code word they use to infer an ethnic slur they know they can’t use, but, rather a term that rockets, without conscious thought, directly from their ids, revealing the effect that race has on the way they process a crime story.

The extremely snide nonpology is just a further bubble of muck from the depths of the psychic ooze.

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“This summer I had an epiphany as I watched packs of racists riot in Ferguson, Missouri, in support of a gigantic thug…”

I got this far into the sentence without realizing he was writing in support of Wilson.

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Brad McElhinny: “His words were uncareful…”

No, his words are racist & if you don’t fire him, you are too.

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