This. There is so much more at play here than political slogans I'm sickened the blame is being laid fully the rhetoric of Palin and the Tea Party.
This nation is angry. We tend to shoot officials and public speakers when we reach this level. I'm appalled but, sadly, not surprised.
What I'm really sickened by is the media saying such things as "I've been on google but I can't find anything like this" "Nothing like this has ever happened before," "I think this is a first"
ok yes she may be the first active congressperson ever shot, but are we really going to split that hair for sensationalism?
I guess we are.
Also, I'm tired of people acting as though no political party or public official has ever used violence as a metaphor before.
But then we never do actually address the real issues when there's a tragedy. Probably because the actual causes are political embarrassing or inconvenient so the outrage as to be directed to a scapegoat.
Meh, maybe I should work this into my own post. Further more, and I've already addressed this with some. I'm tired of "Christians" and "Conservatives" being universally blamed by the same people that won't tolerate "Muslims" or "Arabs" being used as negative generalities.
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Date: 2011-01-10 09:03 pm (UTC)This nation is angry.
We tend to shoot officials and public speakers when we reach this level. I'm appalled but, sadly, not surprised.
What I'm really sickened by is the media saying such things as "I've been on google but I can't find anything like this" "Nothing like this has ever happened before," "I think this is a first"
ok yes she may be the first active congressperson ever shot, but are we really going to split that hair for sensationalism?
I guess we are.
Also, I'm tired of people acting as though no political party or public official has ever used violence as a metaphor before.
But then we never do actually address the real issues when there's a tragedy. Probably because the actual causes are political embarrassing or inconvenient so the outrage as to be directed to a scapegoat.
Meh, maybe I should work this into my own post.
Further more, and I've already addressed this with some. I'm tired of "Christians" and "Conservatives" being universally blamed by the same people that won't tolerate "Muslims" or "Arabs" being used as negative generalities.