A commenter suggests that Knockout Game is actually celebration of the new holiday of Fistivus.  After all, why should the articulate be privileged when it comes to the Airing of Grievances? Fistivus ...

From Slate: Sorry, Right-Wing Media: The "Knockout Game" Trend Is a Myth.By Emma Roller  I remember the summer of 2011, a story about a crowd of teenagers at the Wisconsin State Fair randomly attackin...

Commenter Modern Abraham points out: Can we just exhaust all epistemic uncertainties right now and be done with it? Thumbing through my History of Western Philosophy, here is a crib sheet for the benef...

From Slate: I Was a Victim of the Fake "Knockout Game" Trend By Matthew Yglesias True story. A couple of years back, I was walking home at night on North Capitol Street here in Washington, D.C., when t...

The seemingly synonymous phrases for black-on-white random hate attacks on pedestrians, "Knockout Game" and  "Polar Bear Hunting," have both been around for awhile. I've tended to use them interchangea...

Recently, Jewish leaders in New York have called attention to the pattern of black youths engaging in violent hate crimes against visibly Jewish people walking down the street in Brooklyn, such as a 78...

The "knockout game" is gaining notoriety, with a few brave journalists willing to acknowledge that it's often blacks knocking out whites.(See Surprise! Media finally wake up to Knockout Game, by Colin...