you're trying to put a lot of words in my mouth here while insulting my ability to even have an opinion to begin with. that pretty much makes my point for me at this stage :p

anyway, I don't even have any strong/outrageous opinions on this issue to begin with. you're really grasping at straws if you think my comment about it not just being a bunch of isolated crazies being up to no good but rather a culture of institutionalized racism in some places means there's a conspiracy to kill black people. I didn't even counter the point that there are a lot of good apples to the bad as I generally agree... I moved on to the camera discussion when I came back to the post.

reading through the thread again, if anyone is using hyperbole, sensationalism and the incapacity to form a wider view it's been you. you're just not an enjoyable person to converse with anymore. I'm sorry.

edit: but let's shelve this or take it to PMs since this thread has more merit than to derail it.