Trayvon Martin's Email And Facebook Accounts Hacked By White Supremacist

[dead0man]

Indeed, that's worse than what Spike Lee did.

[dead0man]

A 17 year old is not a child.  A minor, sure.  Not a child.  "Child" implies prepubescent, this fellow clearly wasn't.

[dead0man]

So if a postpubescent 15 year old girl gets raped, we're not allowed to say it was child rape? Come on.

You're allowed to say whatever you want, obviously.  But a 17 year old is NOT a child.  Try calling a 17 year old a child (that isn't your child) and see how they take it?

I agree with everything else you said in your post and think Zimmerman is probably guilty.

[dead0man]

I think the legal term is "minor", not child...but obviously the word has different definitions at different times.  Child, it seems to me, is used in place of minor when we want sympathy for the minor (which, of course, Trayvon deserves)....so I suppose it's correct here, at least from a PR stand point.

FTR wiki says this

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Kind of goes both ways.  On the other hand, the dictionary says this

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Which Trayvon doesn't fit.