..."Please sir...
I want...
NO MORE.
No more of THIS kind of thing, as posted on FACEBOOK:
One irony here is that you know the Right wing racists hate blacks, wouldn't be friends with blacks, would kill a daughter who dated one, and ONLY find them amusing in the movies, or beating each other up in a boxing ring, or helping win a game for THEIR CITY.
The top image is from "The Green Mile." Only the caption on this mean MEME has him moaning and sobbing because...
...he can't STAND to see a kid protesting against the murder of so many of his classmates, and the insanity of a teenager being allowed to own an AUTOMATIC WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
You know that the actor in the film (deceased) would have empathy for young Mr. Hogg, who has been speaking at rallies in front of thousands of young activists and sympathetic elders. Protests around the country have asked merely for sane policies on guns.
A few days ago, Frank Stallone (who?) screamed and spat all over Twitter about what a "coward" this courageous young student really was. A few other D-list celebrities did the same.
And various Internet trolls have put up things like this meme, confident and proud that they are right, and that nobody is going to grab them by the lapels and watch them turn pale and start stammering excuses.
Below this post, the man's friend offered a meme-gif of Mike Tyson laughing hilariously.
Right, Bro, that's wonderful. We're ALL sick and tired of cowardly pussies like Hogg, who get upset just because over a dozen of their friends were blown away, and they COULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE CARNAGE.
Hey, just because a bunch of other kids are maimed and still in the hospital...let's not have any sympathy for them, or listen to what is bothering them. Let's not be part of the solution. After all, this isn't really a problem. As Don McLean sings, "This is life, this is PRIME TIME, this is livin' in the USA." We've come to expect the nightly "mass killing" story.
I met Mike Tyson once. I read his book cover to cover. I know his co-author, who, these two would be dismayed to learn, is one of them JEWS.
I doubt that Mike Tyson is laughing about the Parkland shooting, or sneering that this kid Hogg, and the other kids traumatized or wounded, should shut their cowardly mouths and accept that going to school is like being in a combat zone.
Sadly, it's very difficult to NOT see this kind of post. If you check out most news websites, they encourage "Comments." Glance at them, and you find moronic memes, heartless trolling, surly insults, and bilious insults hurled from the right to the left and back again. "Rednecks! Skinheads!" "Libtards! Snowflakes!"
WHAT YOU SEE ABOVE...you could go on Facebook right now and find much worse.
WHAT YOU SEE ABOVE...you could go on Twitter right now and find much worse.
This just happened to be something I saw recently that serves as an example. Any type of straw can break the camel's back, and any example of cruelty, nastiness, surly disregard for decency or pigheaded tough-hided evil could be posted in its place. There's PLENTY to choose from.
We live in a world where being "sensitive" is a weakness, and calling someone "insensitive" can be considered a compliment.
"Tolerance?" that's for PUSSIES.
To paraphrase Lenny Bruce, this rape of common sense, humanity, dignity and good will, is being done by monsters who "squirt the poison and leave." They leave satisfied. For some people, the best part of their day is getting off some disturbing insults guaranteed to hurt other people.
The answer, or part of the answer, would be to ignore all this. But that's hard to do. It's very toxic. "Moderating" every Facebook page or Twitter account is impossible, and a violation of "freedom of speech." There are people, good people, who think even the Nazis deserve to be able to spread their message around.
So the response is, "Maybe I should just get my news from that increasingly anorexic limp thing called a NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE." Yes, aside from a carefully boxed up sty where "letters to the editors" might go, most of them requiring some brain cells to be deemed ok to publish, there are no trolls with their "Comments" and their hilarious and witty MEMES.
But we are relying more and more on social media and the Internet. Everyone has a Twitter or Facebook account, right? They're on Instagram? They blog? They put themselves at risk? They bank on the Internet? They have their hospital records where they are within an ant's crotch of being hacked and shown to anyone and everyone. It gets more and more difficult to avoid seeing the very worst of harsh, cruel, mindless, angry, ignorant and often downright stupid people. It is a sobering thought that "voting" only puts harsh, cruel, mindless, angry, ignorant and often downright stupid people in positions of power.
And so some of us will try to limit the exposure to this twisted, sickening form of radiation that oozes like diarrhea and wafts like farts and by some evil osmosis, seeps through the computer screen.
"Please sir...I want...NO MORE."
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