Washington Post: The OJ Simpson Double Knife-Murders Showed That Whites Only Had "Conditional" Support for Black Athletes

And, also, the Tate-LaBianca murders showed that middle class whites only had a conditional level of tolerance for a plucky up-and-coming songwriter from a broken home named Charles Manson.

As John Sexton says, Yes, whites' condition for liking O.J. Simpson was that he not be a double-murderer.

But no, that's not what the Racially Woke Washington Post means. They mean that whites showed their true (lack of) colors by turning on O.J. Simpson because he was black. Apparently they had just figured that out -- rather than figuring out that O.J. Simpson was indeed a murderer, a butcher of human beings.

Anyone old enough to remember remembers this: By the time of the Bronco chase, suspicion that O.J. Simpson was the Butcher of Rockingham had been building for at least a month, maybe a month and a half. The evidence that came trickling out through leaks and official statements seemed to damn him more each day.

The fact that there was an arrest warrant out for O.J. Simpson was merely confirmation that the police and one judge believed what had become clear to most by that point: That O.J. Simpson, former NFL star running back, rental car pitchman, and bad actor in Capricorn One and The Naked Gun, was the sort of man who slit his ex-wife's throat as if she were a cow hanging by chains in an abattoir, and also stabbed to death a bystander returning her sunglasses to her just because he suspected that maybe he was his ex-wife's lover.

Here's the Washington Post, suggesting that whites are now accused of (rolls d20) Withdrawing Goodwill from a Man Simply Because He Murders Two People in a Rage of Sexual Impotency:

The chase not only disrupted the NBA Finals -- it also unsettled the comfort white Americans had developed for black athletes. For years, black athletes, and Simpson in particular, were held up as signs of the progress made toward bridging America's racial divide. That night, however, he served as a stark reminder of how conditional that comfort was.

Supporting someone on the condition that he not murder people does not seem to be a very onerous or racist condition to me. But apparently the Wokeington Post knows differently.

I can only assume that white people are also Tainted by Racism for withdrawing their conditional support for Ray Rice, just a-cause he knocked his fiance out:

I know this might be heresy among the race-grifters and the Washington/Huffington Post, but isn't it possible that white people are not some dehumanized group of singleminded robots, but actually evaluate people on their actions and not their skin color?

I think some people can't grasp this possibility -- probably because they themselves only evaluate based on race.

posted by Ace of Spades at 03:33 PM

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