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kyburgIt's as if someone decided that corner needed a stop sign, after too many people had been killed in the crosswalk by negligent traffic.
I can't put the links up fast enough.
We 'idiot' liberals have been saying this for years - the amount of vitriol, pure spite and wanton calls for violence in 'conservative' dialog has been overwhelming, unattractive and in a lot of cases? Just plain scary.
(For folks who really just want to be left alone to live quietly at peace, returning the same in kind never made sense. We just don't have it in us. So we turned it off, and allowed those their first amendment rights. Hey, set an example, right?)
It became such an integral part of our popular culture, some unhinged idiot decided to take them up on it.
Of course, you assign all responsibility to the person who pulled the trigger. But the amount of scrambling on the parts of those who said the words, made the threats, directed the actions...DROVE THE BUS...to remove, scrub, deny and reframe everything ever said, claimed or supported?
Cowardly. And it's pretty clear the message is 'it's okay as long as you don't get caught' - and well, it's too late.
Folks are going to remember - at least us 'idiots' do, because in a lot of cases we must. If someone decides we don't deserve our lives because we are the wrong color, religion, gender - pick a feature - we could be killed by someone who took it upon themselves to decide it needed doing. For whatever reason.
It only takes one guy with a gun - and these days? The guns are really good.
Removing stigma, prejudice, discrimination from groups isn't only to make working environments fair and equitable (thought that's required by law), or to give underprivileged groups a hand up. It's not only to make everything accessible and fair that we allow everyone to use the same public facilities, attend the school or church of their choice or live where they want.
It also makes clear what is acceptable in this society. Where you start when you think about what's okay when you don't agree.
When too many people sneer at such things as 'weak' and show their resolve by claiming only armed resistance is the final answer to any dispute?
No surprise when it comes to pass.
You get the world you ask for, my friends.
Oh, and by the way? It's asshattery to wonder why someone didn't get mental health services in the same breath you're screeching to repeal what little health care reform has been accomplished, standing in the state that repealed assistance to the point people are dying for lack of it. Just saying.
I can't put the links up fast enough.
We 'idiot' liberals have been saying this for years - the amount of vitriol, pure spite and wanton calls for violence in 'conservative' dialog has been overwhelming, unattractive and in a lot of cases? Just plain scary.
(For folks who really just want to be left alone to live quietly at peace, returning the same in kind never made sense. We just don't have it in us. So we turned it off, and allowed those their first amendment rights. Hey, set an example, right?)
It became such an integral part of our popular culture, some unhinged idiot decided to take them up on it.
Of course, you assign all responsibility to the person who pulled the trigger. But the amount of scrambling on the parts of those who said the words, made the threats, directed the actions...DROVE THE BUS...to remove, scrub, deny and reframe everything ever said, claimed or supported?
Cowardly. And it's pretty clear the message is 'it's okay as long as you don't get caught' - and well, it's too late.
Folks are going to remember - at least us 'idiots' do, because in a lot of cases we must. If someone decides we don't deserve our lives because we are the wrong color, religion, gender - pick a feature - we could be killed by someone who took it upon themselves to decide it needed doing. For whatever reason.
It only takes one guy with a gun - and these days? The guns are really good.
Removing stigma, prejudice, discrimination from groups isn't only to make working environments fair and equitable (thought that's required by law), or to give underprivileged groups a hand up. It's not only to make everything accessible and fair that we allow everyone to use the same public facilities, attend the school or church of their choice or live where they want.
It also makes clear what is acceptable in this society. Where you start when you think about what's okay when you don't agree.
When too many people sneer at such things as 'weak' and show their resolve by claiming only armed resistance is the final answer to any dispute?
No surprise when it comes to pass.
You get the world you ask for, my friends.
Oh, and by the way? It's asshattery to wonder why someone didn't get mental health services in the same breath you're screeching to repeal what little health care reform has been accomplished, standing in the state that repealed assistance to the point people are dying for lack of it. Just saying.
