83. PA Cat

I think what Ace (and many of the posters on that thread) was fuming about is the media’s selective protection of favored groups, the members of which can do no wrong: “I [Ace] am sick to death of the media playing stories different ways depending upon whether or not they involve a protected group’s member or member of a group they’re hostile to.

I haven’t read all the comments over there yet, so I don’t know if anyone has brought this up:

Remember the case of Matthew Shepard? He was a young gay man who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by two lowlifes. It became a nationwide story which spawned candlelight vigils on college campuses throughout the country, as well as hate crime legislation. (There was some evidence that it was simply a robbery that went bad and had nothing to do with his orientation, but I digress.)

I remember reading that around the same time, there was a gay male couple who kidnapped a teenaged boy, and sexually tortured and murdered him. Needless to say, he got nearly zero media coverage and no candlelight vigils.