This post and most if not all the other posts are missing one of the biggest issues... he was a black man with a white woman. That 100% had to do with the amount of vitriol.
I was in middle school. Some black students asked our white teacher if she thought he was guilty. After an awkward silence she said yes. They called her racist probably unfair but also probably accurate also I cheated on a project as an inside joke that only me and another person got also I’m high as balls and can’t sleep, eat Arby’s
I'm not saying you're racist but do you carry around this much hated for the hundreds of other murderers out there? Do you have multiple times this much hated for every serial killer? It was 30+ years ago. It's just an oddly specific thing to lose your mind over
this is accurate, also apparently Goldman was a legit martial artist so that does not help when faced with a world class athlete with a weapon
probably because most don’t have nearly the platform he did but he’s fairly remarkable amongst killers with respect to the visibility of his avoidance of accountability and contempt for victims
I mean people still celebrate all the musical things Michael Jackson did..... OJ by comparison is only a murderer
This is such a low effort gotcha. Name hundreds of other murderers that got off free that the media has followed and covered at length for almost three decades. And during that time we’ve watched that murderer be a gleeful doofus who has joked around about whether he did it or not. Can’t speak for others, but my hatred of him has grown from basically nothing when the murders happened to what it is now. Actually you dont need to name 100s. Name one.
Robert Blake would be the first without looking. His star had faded significantly but he pretty much got away with murder
Robert Blake wasn’t culturally relevant for the 20 years before his murder or visible at all in the 20 years after. He didn’t write a book taunting the victim’s families and he didn’t commit armed robbery after being acquired.
Yeah I said that. I guess if we just ignore scale and allow this very narrow carve out then it makes total sense
My third grade teacher had the radio on in the classroom for the verdict, which I vaguely remember. Was talking with my mom this weekend and I guess that went over really well with parents at the time.
Not the same media exposure at all. Didn’t even know who that was. And after reading up on it, yea I hate that fucker too. But it’s obviously not the same as with 3 decades of growing resentment.
I don’t know why it took you and beo such a long fucking time to understand something so basic. context matters here
Also, regardless of how annoying I think beo and now redav are being here, I don’t care how anyone else views this situation. I take no issue with people who are happy to see the criminal justice system finally publicly be upheld to the standard it should be held to— for all people— to a black man. Especially considering how awful our nation’s history is, especially considering, with growing media exposure due to video, how violent and oppressive our police were to black people in the 80’s and 90’s. If that caused people to be so distrustful of police and the criminal justice system, that they refused to believe OJ was guilty, or they just straight up liked having a black public figure beat a case, then no judgement on them, when I consider context of the time.
quick reminder that even if we ignore the fact he killed 2 people (lol at that), OJ beat the shit out of women (and children) his entire adult life If you celebrated his acquittal you likely have your own unique brand of racial issues
Yea and considering America’s history with black people I think you can give those people a pass on that. Not too long before that a bunch of racist LA cops beat the ever loving fuck out of a black dude on tv. You don’t have to agree with the verdict, but our legal system finally publicly held the police department to the standard it should be held to for a black person and it’s okay for people to celebrate that. And it’s okay that generations of trauma to a demographic skewed that demographics view of the situation.
personally took me quite a while to get over the shock of who he really was was bizzaro world because until that point he was 1 of my faves Shit sucked
I think the system worked. Satisfying our collective retributive bloodlust is not the point. A just society can’t let law enforcement bend the rules. The ends can’t justify the means when the agent of action is the state and the end result is potentially execution.
Whole trial kind of laid bare a lot of problems within our society. Didn't seem like there was anyone involved that didn't seem dirty in some way and I feel like we're all worse off for having experienced it
I just think the amount of hate for a 30 year old case is disproportionately weird. How and why does someone hold on to that much hate for something that doesn’t impact them at all for so long.
honest question, how does this: not make sense to you? Because I make it pretty clear that's why I have such disdain for OJ. And I'm not "carrying hatred". He doesn't consume my thoughts. I just think his post-trial existence was disgraceful and how some of our society treated him as a celebrity to be abhorrent and I find any attempts by people who represent him to continue to evade the Browns and Goldmans from seeking what is theirs by law to be of such low class and morals. I promise you the fact that Casey Anthony is trying to get back into the social consciousness by shopping around a TV show pisses me off just as much. I don't even like the fact that NBC paid her for a "documentary" not long ago. these people should be social pariahs and if they had any sense of honor or dignity they'd spend the rest of their lives out of sight of the public eye.
lol there is nothing unique to oj that would make me hate him more over time I think he is a pos that got away with murder but that doesn’t make me hate him more than I did 30 years ago.
yes it was called being a black or POC in America. If you’re white you should be grateful to never understand the pain and suffering that accompanies being made to feel inferior because of how you were born. You’re also ignoring everything going on during that time. Sir Phobos and others accused me of making “everything about race” but when my whole life has taught me everything is about race how am I supposed to act? I won’t tag any other POC but I’m sure by and large they have been taught a similar lesson by life.
I don’t know what this has to do with what I wrote but in the 90s after these murders to a lot of people he was just another hard R. To a large percentage of the population being a POC supersedes being “rich”. He got away with it because of his class status in spite of being black and that pissed off a lot of white people. But, in that post I’m talking about regular people. I’m talking about those that Saul Shabazz said “had their own racial issues”. I’m attempting to explain why I agree with him.
You act like this case just wrapped up 30 years ago and hasn’t been relevant since also why do you care? He’s a woman beating murdering piece of shit. If someone hates him still, that’s normal
So basically POC were excited that he wasn't treated in a manner that he should have been just because he was rich?
Well you said you would like to watch him rot away with cancer so it seemed pretty intense but if you hold that for a bunch of people I guess at least you're consistent. The media thing didn't really resonate for me. I mean I don't become incapable of independent thought if the media covers something. Anyway you kind of answered my quesetion that you have a general cultural grievance with "society (who) treated him as a celebrity" so that does make sense and kind of what I figured.
You took that quote completely out of context. It wasn’t just POC who had a visceral reaction to the verdict. So let’s not try and pretend they were. I don’t know if I’ll be able to explain it to you but no that’s not why POC were “excited”. It was a moment that POC saw a black man use the system that had fucked them over and over again to his benefit. You probably can’t understand why people would feel a sense of relief to be able to say “finally this shit worked for one of us”. In that moment in time OJ was black not rich. Those that were angry weren’t angry a rich person beat the system, they were angry a black man did. Those that were happy weren’t happy a rich man beat the system, they were happy a black man did.
You lack the ability to apply nuance and realize not everyone who had a strong reaction was because of one reason
my visceral reaction is more a product of his continued existence in the public eye. I don't like that he got away with a vicious double murder but I completely understand why things played out the way they did (even excluding things like a terrible prosecutor and a racist lead detective) but if he goes away and he doesn't write that book and he isn't teeing off on golf courses while evading paying out the civil judgement and if he isn't saying "Hello, Twitter world!" and I borderline forgot he existed until one day someone randomly just said "hey, think I saw where OJ died" then I wouldn't have said anything close to as much as I did here. his last post on Twitter was him laying out beside a pool, thanking the people who reached out to him about his health and then (wrongly) picking the winner of the SB and almost five million people saw that video. that just sits so wrong with me.