Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home doused in gasoline in arson attempt, 1 arrested

A 26 year old black female, the exact opposite of who i had figured.

"The name of the woman was released early Friday morning. Atlanta Police identified her as 26-year-old Laneisha Shantrice Henderson." (From the article)

I don't know her party affiliation. Sometimes people have reasons the rest of us cannot understand, it's not always political.

I use Boost for Lemmy in Swipe-mode (android). Linked articles are embedded so you don't have to open and accept cookies and whatnot to read what the post is about.

"Democrats are the party of slavery and Jim Crow! Anyway I'm gonna go burn down MLKs childhood home."

Why? Just because they're young and have a vagina doesn't mean they're immune from bigotry

Oh yeah, tell me about it. I post a lot of articles in various communities, so I probably see more comments that the average user. I cannot overstate how annoying it is to open my inbox to find a deluge of comments from people asking things that are explained within the first sentence or two of an article. Or as in this case, getting the basic facts incorrect because they only read the headline. Lemmy isn't any different than reddit in that regard.

Being a "reddit transplant" who took the time to understand what was going on, I think your joke is overplayed and weirdly elitist. Imagine being prideful of not having found Lemmy through Reddit, or whatever it is you're trying to imply?? lol

Let's not pretend that Lemmy is a bastion of intellectuals, and that it's just former Redditors that are the problem...

The place where people read the headline and make a bunch of assumptions is called "the whole ass universe", not reddit. Besides, people who clicked on the article before posting only wanted to fact-check their suspicions because they're insecure about looking stupid.

Speaking from first hand experience, I want to point this out so people understand the danger involved. Gasoline is very easy to ignite with an open flame (lighter or match) but hard to light with a smoldering ember (like a lit cigarette). if you pour it on something porous like a pile of brush or gravel, then the vapors that get retained in the pile add an explosive element. But even a puddle of gasoline in a metal can outside on a windy day is extremely easy to ignite. You can pour it over wet soil and it will ignite immediately if you throw a match at it. If its wet with straight gas, it will light, and possibly explode with a big whoomph if vapors are retained. Take it seriously and respect it.

Kerosene, diesel fuel, and oil mixed gasoline are surprisingly hard to ignite unless they are poured over a wicking element like cardboard, fabric, or a fiberglass wick. Lighting a puddle of it requires a blow torch for a period of time to get the fluid up to the flash point.

If you are trying to start a bonfire with boyscout juice, never use straight gasoline. Mix it atleast 10:1 with oil or 5:1 with diesel to take the bite out of it, then it will light much more safely.

The fluid itself doesn't ignite, the vapors ignite.

Maybe she doesnt smoke. Chicks who never smoked seen to struggle with lighters a lot.

Actually a 26-year-old woman.

Fox News Channel ≠ local Fox affiliates.

It was a black woman so..... maybe?

Her…. It was a woman.