.@DrewGriffinCNN’s intv on #ConfederateFlag w/ SC Rep Chumley incl surprising comments on #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/40iWOHz3BS
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) June 24, 2015
Keep it up Republicans, keep blaming the people killed by the guy who took your rhetoric to its endpoint.
Meanwhile, in Glibertarian land...
A lot of the surrounding media-led outrage over the flag seems somewhat cold, given the horror of what last week brought. We had nine black people brutally murdered because they were black and sitting in a church with a history of fighting white supremacy. With all due deference to hatred for a Confederate flag on a pole at the statehouse, this seems like an almost childlike attempt to miss the seriousness of the situation. It’s as if they expect us to say, “Congratulations! You oppose the flag of an army that was defeated 150 years ago. We’re all very proud of you, journalists!” This generation seems to excel at inventing controversies, weighing in on those invented controversies, and then patting itself on the back for being so courageous and open-minded.
The far more frightening reality that such invented controversies avoid is that mankind is full of sin, and that some of us show that sinfulness in racism and murder. Or as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago:
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
The murderer of the Emanuel nine has done something particularly bad, but he isn’t the only person capable of evil out there. And getting rid of a flag is hardly the remedy for the racism and violence that infects our culture. How juvenile to think otherwise.
Wanting to get rid of the Confederate flag is "childlike" and "juvenile" so why bother? It doesn't cure racism, but neither did, you know, the entire civil rights movement, nor did electing and re-electing Barack Obama magically fix racism in America.
I suppose those were juvenile and childlike acts too. Since nothing you can do to incrementally fix society can totally fix it, why bother at all, right?
It's like these guys are trying as hard as they can to be as awful as possible.
I look forward to having open and honest research done on the alleged miracle cures, so we can find out once and for all which are real and which are standard alt.med hokum. Pushing medicinal marijuana as a stalking horse for legitimizing one's pathetic addiction is like pushing medicinal brandy or Mother's Little Helper; two hundred years ago homeopathy was a legitimate competitor to mainstream medicine, but only one of them has moved on and now actually works on a regular basis.
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