The Twitterverse is apoplectic over a recently excavated MySpace profile reportedly used by George Zimmerman as recently as—gasp!—2005. The long abandoned profile includes disparaging comments about Mexicans and Zimmerman’s ex-fiance.
And you know what that means? Guilty!
https://twitter.com/#!/gasoline_dream/status/197339301443407872
https://twitter.com/#!/TajahYasmeen/status/197367087293931520
https://twitter.com/#!/LaTeshiaB/status/197347007894003712
So, the social media accounts used by Trayvon Martin shortly before his death are irrelevant and off-limits, but we should convict Zimmerman of murder based on some ugly language posted on a 7-year-old MySpace account? Gotcha.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, is using the MySpace postings to bolster his argument that Zimmerman is a racist.
https://twitter.com/#!/RoblesHerald/status/197477403289853952
https://twitter.com/#!/RoblesHerald/status/197662993721462785
Others in the anti-Zimmerman mob see the MySpace postings as proof that he is an inauthentic or self-loathing Hispanic:
https://twitter.com/#!/mrdaveyd/status/197531342228037632
https://twitter.com/#!/radseed/status/197463047613329408
https://twitter.com/#!/stopbeingfamous/status/197545311940509696
Sound familiar? “Self-hating” and similar jabs are favored by leftists as a means of discrediting and punishing racial minorities, gays, women, and anyone else who disrupts their narratives.
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The remarks on his MySpace profile are certainly troubling. But they’re also 7 years old. Note how that detail is lost on those who refuse to question Zimmerman’s guilt:
https://twitter.com/#!/IntensityBrandX/status/197352134843441152
https://twitter.com/#!/lhammock/status/197521593302388736
https://twitter.com/#!/804streetmonsta/status/197448108349730817
In the pursuit of justice, it’s more than fair to look at information that might speak to Zimmerman’s character. But distorting that information and not holding others to the same standard perverts the very idea of justice.
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