Boston Marathon Bomber gets Rolling Stone Cover

[Clem]

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

WHERE IS MY CHRIS DORNER COVER ISSUE OF BOYS LIFE, BROTHER?

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Black lives are being openly murdered and destroyed with no justice but this terrorist of the other complexion is getting glorified by Rolling Stones.




Post-Racial society brehs.,

White boy terrorist kills a bunch of innocent folks and its everyone's fault but his own. Notice the language on the cover... "Promising student..." "his family at fault..." and he just "innocently" fell into islam.


But with travyon, a teen who committed no crime and had no prior record and was gunned down with skittle and tea in his hands.... he was responsible for his own death, vilified, and portrayed as a thug in the eyes of media.

 

[Nintendough]

White boy terrorist kills a bunch of innocent folks and its everyone's fault but his own. Notice the language on the cover... "Promising student..." "his family at fault..." and he just "innocently" fell into islam.


But with travyon, a teen who committed no crime and had no prior record and was gunned down with skittle and tea in his hands.... he was responsible for his own death, vilified, and portrayed as a thug in the eyes of media.

Its disgusting, it really is. I think the most disturbing part of the racism is the cowardice involved. If they really want to be scum, just be scum. Don't try to piss on my head and say its rain.

 

[jackswstd]

Never read Rolling Stone that pesky Freedom of Speech and Press though. You can't scream it and then be angry when it's used how it's intended. They have a right to sell it just as you have the right to not purchase it.

 

[Type Username Here]

They should free this kid on the grounds of his dashing good looks

 

[NelsonSwagdela]

Never read Rolling Stone that pesky Freedom of Speech and Press though. You can't scream it and then be angry when it's used how it's intended. They have a right to sell it just as you have the right to not purchase it.

The beauty of free speech is the it allows idiots and scum to think they can say anything with repercussion. Unfortunately Americans don't weed out the idiots and shameless they embrace them. My only problem with this is the glamorization of this stuff just encourages other narcissistic,religious psychopaths.

 

[jackswstd]

The beauty of free speech is the it allows idiots and scum to think they can say anything with repercussion. Unfortunately Americans don't weed out the idiots and shameless they embrace them. My only problem with this is the glamorization of this stuff just encourages other narcissistic,religious psychopaths.

I would hope they understand the backlash and throw the issue in the bushes. I wasn't embracing it I'm just as disgusted as any normal person would be. I'm not trying to understand why he did what he did. He maimed and killed innocent people running a marathon.

 

[Greenhornet]

fukk the fishtank

 

[Batter Up]

This is nothing more than a dying magazine doing what they need to do to attract attention and stay relevant. Pathetic but given the state of print media it's to be expected.

 

[Mr.Whiskers]

Don't really have a problem with him being put on the cover, but they kept the same style of the magazine and everything so it's hard to consider they're taking it so seriously as to give enough of a fukk to alter the layout. They probly gonna see more interest in the magazine now tho from all the attention it's getting...

 

[Scustin Trillberlake]

Bomb children and get magazine covers and groupies, brehs.

 

[thekingsmen]

Bomb children and get magazine covers and groupies, brehs.

There is still no evidence of him doing so....none.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

I'm surprised nobody up in hea has mentioned dat bullshyt lil discription on da bottom right hand corner. Again wit da "poor innocent cac " Always somebody else fault right. Guarantee dey wouldn't say no shyt like dat if buddy was black or brown.

Cacs and their infinite pool of scapegoating and denial. Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[TrueEpic08]

Lmao, at 'maybe if they darkened his skin'. Um, why would they darken the skin of a White man just to appease the ignorant readers who think dark skinned & a beard = a terrorist?

You act like this hasn't happened before.

Also, I find it extremely odd and displeasing that we just got done being outraged at a case in which a young Black teenager was profiled based on the way that he looked, yet we get pissed as a Rolling Stone cover picture of a (possible) Chechen bomber because he looks too clean cut and might get people lost in his eyes or something.

That's the way he looks and it's the most important story in that edition of the magazine, you didn't think he was going to get the cover? Should they do what This Week did with the Tsarnaev brothers and "Arab" them up a little bit to make them uglier and easier to digest as terrorists? Or would that be too close to the disgusting media representations of Trayvon Martin that emphasized his school suspensions and weed use to assassinate his character?

The fact that the editors prefaced the online story with a paean to the victims and those offended is ridiculous. It's journalism on an extremely important side of the issue. It's needed for perspective. They have no reason to apologize for the cover or their reporting on it. The "promising student" thing is a bit much (Abdulmutallab didn't get anything close to that, if I remember correctly. In fact, his existence was used to paint Anwar Al-Awlaki as a terrorist, when he'd committed no crimes), but that happens.

The outrage about this says more about the people outraged and the culture that they've been molded by over the past 12 years than about the writers of this article or Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

Edit: Oh, forgot, here's the full article from the Rolling Stone website: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jahars-world-20130717 I'll read it later today to see if there's anything else to comment on.