True.
"I haven't seen anyone in this thread make a factual claim that the attack was racially motivated"
"But even if the attacker did have a history of racist "videos or posts" it still wouldn't "factually" prove that her attack on this man was racially motivated"
Of course not, that's why I said " I will have no problem
considering this may have been racially motivated if someone can present any evidence of her exhibiting any sort of racially biased behavior in the past.". It would increase the likely hood of this attack being racially motivated, why, because then we would have actual proof that she has an anti-black bias, the people claiming that this attack was racially motivated would actually have some solid ground to stand on. Without proof of a racial bias people are just grasping at straws, with proof we can actually say "well when we look at X we can see that she has a bias against black people, so maybe this attack was racially motivated).
I asked for someone to present me with any videos, tweets, or forum posts of her showing exhibiting any distaste for black people, I even gave them breathing room by saying "Anything from her saying she doesn't like blacks to her talking slyly about blacks", I did this because I'm aware that what's considered racism is different from man to man.
"her expressed track record from people that have interacted with her and the way the situation was addressed, it seems very likely race had a lot to do with her feelings and actions"
Are you referencing
2gunsup's comment? If so, it doesn't even hint to this being racially motivated, it says
"Anyway she was not happy with ShinBlade and the Memphis team at all and was pretty vocal to a few people about her not liking ShinBlade thinking he's a rude person and too loud for the tournament" and
"So when ShinBlade starts popping off she decides to go up and grab him, trying to look like she's calming him down but mainly to bait a reaction out of him. Not only did she try to get him DQ'd but he wanted him to end up as another Aris CrossAssault situation and make it look like he attacked her and get some serious heat heading his way from shyt like Kotaku and Polygon. I guess she's going off the logic that cause she's a girl people will believe her over the guy". It appears that this is more of a guy/girl thing, something I made a comments about earlier in the thread. If you were not referencing 2gunsup's comment then I must ask you to post the comment you were making a reference to.
I agree, but I'm leaning more on the 'it's because she's a woman and he is a man she doesn't like' side.
Isn't that appeal to popularity? I don't feel like they are "making this up", they are making assertions and can't even present any evidence that that girl has a racial bias and as a result this attack may have been racially motivated. Like I said evidence of her racial bias will not prove that this attack was racially motivated, BUT it will at least give you a legitimate reason to consider that it may have been.