The Dangers of Facebook

This meme was in my Facebook Newsfeed one morning

<deep sigh>

If you believe Walter Scott and Tamir Rice were criminals, I don't understand you. It's not that we can't talk about other things, but on this point, we'd need a Rosetta Stone.

If you imply the most recent protests are rioting, I disagree with you with the same level of disrespect with which you make such an inference.

That non-batting of the eyes you are witnessing is due to Mainstream Media's focus on Donald Trump. Voices raised over yet another filmed example of systematic racism have nothing to do with it.

And to imply

Believing Walter Scott's death was unjust = Yawning over service members' deaths at the hands of lone gunmen

Is to set up a false equivalency.

Humanity has the capacity to be alarmed at two different but equally tragic instances of murder. Let's not shortchange ourselves by pretending otherwise.