I know this headline seems more appropriate for our The Week in WTF? column, but it does have some social and political merit beyond mutilated genitals and impossibly large breasts even if it does involve a flaming raccoon. The NAACP really does want a flaming raccoon to be declared a hate crime, because they are not serious people whatsoever.
Here’s an odd piece from LebTown:
The NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference has called for community leaders of Lebanon Countys to condemn a November arson incident involving a raccoon.
On the night of November 16, 2020, two people in a pickup truck deposited a raccoon and set it on fire on the front lawn of John and Ellie Salahub, residents of North Cornwall Township. The truck was captured on home security before driving away.
In a press release issued last week, the organization reiterated the statements made by the Salahubs, who believed the incident to be politically and racially motivated. The couple had put up signs in support of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris presidential campaign and the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as a sign with the words and image of Martin Luther King Jr.
The NAACP stated that the Salahubs had “clearly been targeted in their experiences of hateful acts throughout the years.” The statement asked that the incident be recognized as a hate crime by the North Cornwall Township Police Department, as well as arson and trespassing.
“As we begin 2021, it is time for the leadership of this community…to not only condemn this and any other hate crimes as well address these egregious crimes in a way that puts constituents on notice that such actions are totally unacceptable,” said the NAACP in a statement.
A flaming raccoon is an egregious hate crime? Okay, let’s humor this and look at the evidence. Here’s doorbell cam footage of the incident:
I can’t help but to notice the complete lack of political signs in their front yard. Isn’t the basis for this being a hate crime that these people were targeted for having Biden and BLM signs in their yard?
Next, the “victims” took a picture of the flaming raccoon instead of trying to put it out, which would have been the humane thing to do:
I can’t help but to notice that the flaming raccoon is laying in the street, not these people’s signless front yard. Isn’t part of the basis for this being a hate crime that someone threw a flaming raccoon into these people’s front yard?
So what we really have here is someone lit a raccoon on fire and didn’t throw it into a yard that didn’t have any political signs and yet somehow the NAACP is demanding this be treated as a hate crime.
Perhaps the NAACP is trying to establish the flaming raccoon as a new symbol of hate like innocuous ropes and our Founding Fathers. Who knows, maybe the flaming raccoon was the democratic party mascot back when they founded the KKK and before they settled on the jackass.
Setting a raccoon on fire is a dick crime, and hopefully that thing was dead before it got ignited, but it ain’t no hate crime. Especially considering the flaming raccoon never made it to made it to a yard that had no reason to be targeted for a hate crime.
