Strong words. But Simon didn’t stop there. Remarkably, he took the time to address many of the comments following the post. A few highlights:
- One commenter chastised him for trying to “fan the flames and incite violence,” to which Simon replied, “You’ve missed the thread of that passage utterly.”
- Several others called on Simon to prove that Zimmerman’s actions in shooting Martin were racist. He replied, “I don’t think Mr. Zimmerman is by any necessity a racist. But his calculations and his behaviors were racially motivated.”
- In other responses, Simon bemoaned the slippery slope effect — that the Martin case would be the first of many. “The law has changed — and the culture of legal self-defense is changing — in a revolutionary fashion. There will be more of these cases now. Not less.”
Watch a clip of the opening intro from Season 1 of “The Wire”:
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