Anecdote as data

We all do it. When an anecdote agrees with our narrative, we use it to confirm our biases. Freepers, not having much confirming data, blow individua incidents into clear trends. Hence, the horrible story of the girl gang-raped in Richmond, CA becomes a weapon against...well, against whatever:

For bustinchops, it's liberals:

They should level [Richmond] and move all the residents across the bridge to Marin County. Let the limousine liberal lefties that overran Marin County decades ago find out what it’s like to live among these people.

For whitedog57 its the Messicans:

It was Hispanic gang members.

And they want to let in millions more, give them “free” healthcare and education and we get our taxes raised for our kindness.

The Democrats are traitors and should be arrested and imprisoned.

With Hispanic gang members in their cell.

backed up by lentulusgracchus:

Salient question: Was the girl who was attacked of "another ethnos" than her attackers?

And I thought Freepers hated hate crime legislation!

Ghost of Philip Marlowe has decided Hollywood's excerable behavior re: Polanski is generalizable as well

Many ‘brilliant’ Hollywood celebrities would describe such a scene as “not being rape, rape.”

Because that had nothing to do with people (stupidy, blindly) defending thir friends and everything to do with how liberals love them some rape:

Boiling Pots attacks liberals AND darkies:

The multiculturalists have won here like they’ve won in the UK.

1010RD hates the Atheists:

Atheists tell us that without God you won't turn into a murderer/rapist/thief/etc. overnight. They're right. It takes a generation or two.

Everyone with an agenda. No one really caring about the, you know, victim.