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Originally Posted by Frosty
First of all, I'm not racist - but I really don't see anything wrong with that title. Yeah, kid is dead, guy is apparently an illegal immigrant (he had two arrests before that for driving without a license) so how is it racist calling him an illegal immigrant? I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be mad either.
He left his country, made some problems, apparently has no permission to be in USA, and people should ignore the facts?
I don't judge people by their nationality or religion, but this is far from racist. Some dumbfucks may blacklist other immigrants from that area because of him, but nothing we can do.
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I agree! To be clear, there is nothing wrong with the title in itself.
What's wrong is that Sally hand crafted it specifically to get a reaction and make a point, using a dead child no less.
If SFGate had posted that headline, and Sally had pasted it here into the subject, I wouldn't have said a damned thing. That would be the editor's fault, not Sally's.
But ask yourself.. What point was Sally trying to make by wording the subject the way it is? It's out of line, doesn't belong here, is blatantly racist - and Sally wrote it, but denies it.
If an editor of a newspaper wants to spin the headlines, that's fine, but when Sally manually adds the racist spin and then pretends like it's not racist and outright denies even writing the subject, that's just a bit ridiculous.