Your media guide to the differences between #Ferguson and #pumpkinfest http://t.co/XfRjlhgei0
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Matt Weinecke (@MattTW) October 19, 2025CNN says "bonfires," not ARSON re: Keene fires. Y'all, somebody set a bonfire in the QT. cnn.com/2014/10/19/us/… #Pumkinfest
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deray mckesson (@deray) October 19, 2025****
Ferguson protests after a murder. Media calls them thugs and mobs
White students set fires and vandalize. Media calls them "rowdy" #Keene
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 19, 2025Your perfect double standard excuse
sick of social media make a big deal out of #keenepumpkinfest kids party every year lets not act like kids now are any worse than before
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Ryan Sanderson (@rysanderson) October 19, 2025****
If only this community’s leaders would speak out to condemn this violence. #PumpkinFest bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/…
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Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) October 19, 2025Don't these people have jobs? Where are the white fathers? What will end this corrosive culture of violence?! bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/…
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 19, 2025****
White ppl looting at Lacoste.
That's the whole joke.
Just "white people looting at Lacoste." #keenepumpkinfest http://t.co/sVPmC1KGHA
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2025White students vandalizing. Where are the leaders who will speak about this culture of violence?! #pumpkinfest #Keene http://t.co/CRuwcxRS88
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 19, 2025****
So #pumpkinfest is like #Ferguson protests only no purpose, more violence & less police brutality. Cool.
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Molly (@mollyrosestl) October 19, 2025White privileged 'thugs' rioting for their right to party and flip cars in #Keene, NH. #pumpkinfest http://t.co/5ED8Qu9Lve
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Viva la causa! (@70torinoman) October 19, 2025****
Look at these thug gang-bangers in Keene, NH. #pumpkinfest http://t.co/DHwgAHC9Kd
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Ray Wert (@raywert) October 19, 2025Lacoste. Looting. The color of privilege is blinding. #pumpkinfest http://t.co/rdjviqpQC5
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deray mckesson (@deray) October 19, 2025****
Cops don't feel "threatened" by white kids who loot, burn cars,but use that excuse 2 kill blacks who R unarmed n not a threat #pumpkinfest
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(@DrTMG) October 19, 2025The discrepancies in police response and media coverage between #Ferguson and #keenepumpkinfest should be a wake up call, but they won't
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E Ru the Damaja (@AlluringShrew) October 19, 2025****
Words white ppl will use to describe #KeenePumpkinFest:
Melee
Fracas
Kerfuffle
Brouhaha
Mayhem
Rowdy
Unruly
Shenanigans
Rumpus
Ruckus
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2025Interestingly, The Blaze leads with “When College Kids Get Too Drunk.”
Their headline on Ferguson? “Riots, Looting, Sharpton…"
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Dianna E Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 19, 2025****
Not one news report (that I’ve seen) leads with the concept of violence. It’s all “unruly college kids” getting “out of hand.”
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Dianna E Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 19, 2025White rioters looted stores, chanting “fuck the police.” 14 arrests.
Ferguson protesters stood on sidewalk. 50+ arrests.
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Dianna E Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 19, 2025****
"Rowdy" is a peculiar word for the rioters at that #pumpkinfest, @cnnbrk. About 30 were injured. How about "violent"? cnn.it/1tCvTQW
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 19, 2025@Cnn “unruly” your reporting is garbage and biased / people rioted and destroyed property #ferguson #keenepumpkinfest http://t.co/Og1j79GjtU
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bL0Ve (@2_Synnseer) October 19, 2025****
Saw someone refer to the #keenepumpkinfest riot as a "fracas."
White folks digging deep into their thesaurus to find descriptive words.
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2025@AngryBlackLady My favorite so far is “mayhem”. Mayhem sounds kind of fun. People get drunk, mayhem ensues.
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Dave (@D_v_E) October 19, 2025@AngryBlackLady @jmcaninch68 us White folks taught we "fracas", Black people "riot". White guys are "Young Men" and Black guys are "Thugs".
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CaptainGarrett (@spclifton) October 19, 2025****
Protest. Riot.
Survival. Privilege.
Citizens. Thugs.
Peace. Destruction.
Right. Wrong.
Black. White. http://t.co/BoWJt1IJ8l
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No Justice No Peace (@drumbeats4peace) October 19, 2025#pumpkinfest Where White Kids can destroy their neighborhood and the cops just smile and go "Those Crazy Kids"
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Viktor T Kerney (@wondermann5) October 19, 2025****
reasons white people riot:
1. their sports team wins
2. their sports team loses
3. no more tickle me elmos
4. tea
5. pumpkins
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Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) October 19, 2025Media on #Ferguson: Angry mob loots and destroys the community.
Media on #KeenePumpkinFest: Unruly college kids get a little rowdy.
Hmm...
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 19, 2025****
I mean, #whiteviolence has brought us riots in two different states on the same day. Over sports & pumpkins.
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) October 19, 2025See, when white ppl riot, it's "rowdy," "awry," & "mayhem." Black ppl protest unjustified murder & it's a violent riot. Fuck off, media.
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Scary Blah Lady (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2025****
✌️gone awry✌️ RT @TIME Dozens were injured as police used riot gear to break up an annual pumpkin festival gone awry ti.me/1sYyMJs
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Alejandro NIGlesias (@AlejandroDaGr8) October 19, 2025Had some Black ppl started a pumpkin riot the Natl Guard would've been called in. Let's keep that real. #WhitePrivilege #keenepumpkinfest
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Doc Blue (@DrJP2011) October 19, 2025****
People of color fight for their right to not be killed & brutalized; white kids fight for their right to party. #Ferguson #keenepumpkinfest
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Janaka Stucky (@janaka_stucky) October 19, 2025This happened at #pumpkinfest not #Ferguson but cops decided no snipers or military force was needed. Wonder why? http://t.co/bhmIolX9Up
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Political Nerd (@Sttbs73) October 19, 2025
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