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What double standard?
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Hang an effigy of Governor Palin, no crime.
Hang and effigy of Senator Obama, get arrested.
Both incidents are offensive. Why the difference in results? 
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Well, on the one hand, the "arrest" in the Obama incident the interim head of the University of Kentucky police. Universities typically do have a little heightened sensitivity to hate crimes and this one is a publicly funded institutions which is supported by taxpayer dollars. The Palin effigy was by some dude at his own home (which we presume was not purchased with taxpayer dollars).
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Krusty pointed out the most important facts, but there's also the fact that hanging black people from trees is a common racist sentiment whereas hanging Palin from a tree does not read so much as a threat against an entire class of people as just hatred for the candidate herself.
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Yeah I think that if/when Palin gets a few bona fide attempts on her life (as Obama already has), then this kind of nonsense against her will be answered with a lot more gravity. I certainly don't condone the disparity, but I can at least say I understand the pragmatism of it.
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It's BS and a complete double-standard, any way you slice it.
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Here ya go, this just in today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...neighbour.html
"Racially harass" a white chick chavvy blob, no charge.
"Racially harass" the other way around, then it's two years in prison.
Plenty of double standards everywhere. Whether one gets charged or not depends on who the left have decided is the underdog.
(Oh, I'd personally have charged her with insulting leprechauns.  )
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They were different situations involving different law enforcement jurisdictions. I can get arrested eating a cookie on the Washington DC subway but could enjoy a plate of ribs in the NYC version. Does that make it a double standard?
That being said, if wish they were both treated in the same manner. I'm on the fence as to what I wish the outcome would have been, intellectually I think free expression should be protected, emotionally, I think both were abhorrent.
It does our side no good that they were not treated in the same fashion.
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