21/3/14

[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com

So, the master hater has finally passed on. The one who picketed innumerable funerals, displaying his trademark sign "God hates fags", and "Thank God for dead soldiers". The one who rejoiced at the horrible tragedy of 9/11, ascribing it to a vengeful deity who/which was supposedly pissed at those fuckin' heathens down there, living their godless life of wicked heathendom. Or something.

In the meantime, the actual good Christians and other normal people of faith or without faith or whatever, might be willing to find the inner strength and show this garbage of a human being what true humanity is about, and show his family the common decency he would never have deigned upon others, and refrain from responding to hate with hate, and thus interrupt this vicious circle of pain.

That's all nice and good, but not so fast )
[identity profile] enders-shadow.livejournal.com
The fact that "we are the 99%" was a rally cry is an interesting thing to examine. Not only does it, in itself, exclude some people from their efforts, but it's also wrong [in one sense, and right in a different sense].
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