Friday, May 15, 2015

So WHAT Is Wrong With Erin Burnett And Those Of Her Ilk?

Lawrence O'Donnell is Irish too, and he doesn't know what's wrong with her. We should be so proud
of him for not knowing!
When a man with a badge and a weapon guns down an unarmed person in the streets, who's the thug?
When Irish people play with or shop toy guns, are they gunned down?
Oh- Irish people don't commit any crimes?
When Irish pedophiles offend against children, do get gunned down in the streets?
Oh- there are no Irish pedophiles. But what are Travelers? Do Travelers get gunned down in the streets?
When Bill O'Reilly had scores of advantages growing up which were routinely denied African Americans, did he acknowledge those advantages? Peter Jennings certainly did, and he was ten times the journalist O'Reilly is. Did he believe if he was accused he'd be gunned
down in the streets, or that instead he'd get a lawyer.
How many Irish people are shot or killed in routine traffic stops, or when flagging down a police car to get some help?
If you are not getting gunned down in the streets- what are You angry about while you live without
inordinate fear?
If you avoid police without being shot and killed for it, what makes you react so personally negatively to those who love their friends and neighbors, even their imperfect friends and neighbors?
'Why so pale and wan' toward those of us who stand up for one another?
We are supposed to stand up for each other, people.
Why do you think we ever stood up for each other when Jim Crow, as one example,  seemed like a wonderful law in the first place?
Othering doesn't work out for some groups, especially some minorities.
Suddenly, for instance, after Arab Spring, Coptic Christians, among others, began to be thought of as
lawless in Egypt for whatever small infraction they might commit.
This 'othering' won't disappear, but its effects can be mitigated to something milder than murdering
unarmed people in the streets if more people gifting themselves with the right to do what they have no more than the power to do- could just grow up.


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