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Can you use the word "lynch" in a story?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by BurnsWhenIPee, Jun 3, 2019.

  1. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    high-tech...bah, and Al Gore hadn't even invented the Internet yet.
     
  2. Just the facts ma am

    Just the facts ma am Well-Known Member

    I don't understand "pretend".
     
  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Because not even the most Jason Whitlock-wannabe ignorant Uncle Tom slapdick would ever write this about lynching:

     
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  4. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member

    Seriously? Did you really?
     
  5. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member

    Wait. You just used it. You should be permanently banned from this website.
     
  6. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member


    This is pure bullshit. Grade A, 100 percent, bullshit.
     
  7. Just the facts ma am

    Just the facts ma am Well-Known Member

    So you are emotional because my opinion does not conform to what you think a black person should think.

    Out of curiosity I posed this "lynch word in story" question to a couple of other black people. The initial reaction of both was, "was he writing about a primarily black team?". When I said no (the Cardinals currently have one American black player on the roster), they kind of hemmed and hawed and said they could kinda see how it could be offensive, I got the sense that they thought that this is what I wanted them to say.
     
  8. Just the facts ma am

    Just the facts ma am Well-Known Member

    lynch
    verb
    \ ˈlinch \
    lynched; lynching; lynches
    Definition of lynch


    transitive verb

    : to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission. The accused killer was lynched by an angry mob.
     
  9. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    I'm not emotional at all.

    You're spectacularly full of shit.
     
  10. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Did I really what?
     
  11. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member

    You don't see anything slightly wrong with this reply?
     
  12. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Ironically I meant nothing by it, but I’m guessing you can take it to be a buckwheat reference. It’s become such a flip take on okay that to me it’s lost all context. I use it all the time in texting
     
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