I don’t really post on every single event in human history, just the ones that catch my eye. This one did.

I get that… but it is interesting on what catches your eye.

do you just read to find something to argue with, no matter how trivial it is?

I don’t find this post, or the subject matter, to be trivial at all. The subject matter – wrongful convictions, and white privilege (and the connection between the two – is something that I am very passionate about.

Or do you actually feel so passionately opposite to me about nearly every single little thing in the universe?

Well… when you are wrong about so much, there is a lot to be opposed to.

I’m not saying there is no racism, and that no one ever mistreats a black person from racist motives, but I am questioning how many times that’s actually an accurate assessment.

Dave, just curious: do you just read to find something to argue with, no matter how trivial it is? Or do you actually feel so passionately opposite to me about nearly every single little thing in the universe? Shucks… the fact that we have a minor point of agreement here is making me nervous.

Dave, actually I DO agree that wrongfully convicted people deserve reparations

Fair enough… then we agree on something.

The title of the post is to show that many bad things happen to white males, who are as powerless as anyone else when they happen.

And I don’t think that anyone would disagree that many bad things happen to white males, but that does not mean that white male privilege does not exist. You anecdotes are not proof against something.

And bad things certainly happened to this Marine, and being white didn’t protect him

Actually… you do not know that. Maybe being white helped him get a better lawyer after his conviction? Or maybe being white helped him get a better chance of being heard by a court? Just because being white didn’t keep him from being convicted doesn’t mean that being white didn’t help him.

And pardon me, but I have just the teeniest little suspicion that if he was black, Jesse Jackson would have been all over it, probably calling it a double standard of justice, and so on.

This is really, really ironic, being that I have never seen you, or Glen Sacks, talk about any person of color who was wrongfully convicted. So you can imply that Jesse Jackson is hypocritical, but it sure rings hollow when you do the exact same thing, but just replace military with black.

The title of the post is to show that many bad things happen to white males, who are as powerless as anyone else when they happen. I have recently been hearing the phrase “white male privilege” a great deal. I hear black males complain of being stopped and searched by cops, etc. But I have been stopped for no reason and searched. I have been detained because I fit a description of some crook. I have been harassed for no reason by police. (In fact, I have been harassed by a BLACK police officer, for no reason whatsoever.) It happens. And bad things certainly happened to this Marine, and being white didn’t protect him. And pardon me, but I have just the teeniest little suspicion that if he was black, Jesse Jackson would have been all over it, probably calling it a double standard of justice, and so on.

I assume that you believe that ALL wrongfully convicted individuals deserve reparations, right?