[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

why when white kids riot and cause havoc in towns they're called revellers but blacks violent thug?

Looting can hardly be called revelling, not sure white football hooligans have ever been called revellers can you provide a link where looters whatever their colour have been labelled revellers

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Looting can hardly be called revelling, not sure white football hooligans have ever been called revellers can you provide a link where looters whatever their colour have been labelled revellers

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gra..._football.html

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gra..._football.html

There was plenty of white people involved in the London riots, I don't remember any of them being called "revelers" saying that white people are never called violent thugs is pretty ridiculous

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gra..._football.html

this is from an African American online mag, are those captions their own?

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Cherie

this is from an African American online mag, are those captions their own?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...no-reason.html

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29695232

But others noted the contrast between the rioters in Keene - who appeared mostly to be white, well-off college students - and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager two months ago.

Many compared the manner in which the media covered Keene and Ferguson. The former, one widely-circulated image complained, was typically described using phrases such as "rowdy", "mischief" and "booze-filled revellers". But the latter, according to mainstream discourse, had been the result of "thugs" and "animals" who were "destroying their community".

Others archly deployed the language of commentators who have weighed in over Ferguson. "Where are the leaders in the white community? They need to speak out," tweeted @BrFleurantin.. @WesleyLowery added: "Don't these people have jobs? Where are the white fathers? What will end this corrosive culture of violence?!"

This report has the word 'revellers' in the head line.

http://news.sky.com/story/1356198/po...-festival-riot

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...no-reason.html

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29695232



This report has the word 'revellers' in the head line.

http://news.sky.com/story/1356198/po...-festival-riot

Doesn't revellers mean a party goer though? Which in that case would be relevant because that's what they were before they started rioting? They were festival goers turned rioters. Doesn't mean they're not also thugs

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Doesn't revellers mean a party goer though? Which in that case would be relevant because that's what they were before they started rioting? They were festival goers turned rioters. Doesn't mean they're not also thugs

49 arrested, 30 injuries, 20 in hospital. That stopped being a party long ago. People were merely pointing out that the difference in the reporting.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

49 arrested, 30 injuries, 20 in hospital. That stopped being a party long ago. People were merely pointing out that the difference in the reporting.

Yeah obviously they turned into thugs, I just wonder if that's why that particular word was used in that case because of what it started out as?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...no-reason.html

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29695232



This report has the word 'revellers' in the head line.

http://news.sky.com/story/1356198/po...-festival-riot

yes but the sky article is about a kind of street party that got out of hand. It did not involve looting

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

why when white kids riot and cause havoc in towns they're called revellers but blacks violent thug?

Originally Posted by Cherie

Looting can hardly be called revelling, not sure white football hooligans have ever been called revellers can you provide a link where looters whatever their colour have been labelled revellers

What Cherie said tbf