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attractivegeekery) wrote2013-05-03 11:13 am
attractivegeekery) wrote2013-05-03 11:13 am
Unpopular Real Life Opinions
- Suspect One was American.
- Suspect Two is American.
- Both Suspects One and Two are Caucasian.
- Caucasian equates to white. If you don't like that then maybe, just maybe, you should stop using outdated Anthropological terms as descriptors.
- Inciting violence is not speech protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
- Using social media to inform people that you are "hunting for them" is inciting violence. People who do this should be ashamed of themselves.
- All people, regardless of what they believe or how horribly they act, are deserving of basic human dignity. All people. No exceptions. Believing that some people are "less than human" lends justification to the belief that it's okay to leave pressure cookers full of nails and gunpowder on a crowded street.
- If you find yourself incapable of viewing all people as having basic human dignity please do not enter the medical field, mortuary field, or any other occupation where you are responsible for administering basic human decency. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
- Families are allowed to grieve for their members, even if those members are douchebags of the highest order. We should leave them the fuck alone, because what they're going through is difficult.
- Suspect Two is American.
- Both Suspects One and Two are Caucasian.
- Caucasian equates to white. If you don't like that then maybe, just maybe, you should stop using outdated Anthropological terms as descriptors.
- Inciting violence is not speech protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
- Using social media to inform people that you are "hunting for them" is inciting violence. People who do this should be ashamed of themselves.
- All people, regardless of what they believe or how horribly they act, are deserving of basic human dignity. All people. No exceptions. Believing that some people are "less than human" lends justification to the belief that it's okay to leave pressure cookers full of nails and gunpowder on a crowded street.
- If you find yourself incapable of viewing all people as having basic human dignity please do not enter the medical field, mortuary field, or any other occupation where you are responsible for administering basic human decency. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
- Families are allowed to grieve for their members, even if those members are douchebags of the highest order. We should leave them the fuck alone, because what they're going through is difficult.
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I'm saying this because it's (in addition to everything else) upsetting that these attacks may be used to create further difficulties for immigrants. Especially as none of those already calling for greater restrictions on immigration is mentioning that at least two victims of this attack and the events that followed were also foreign nationals.
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I...am amused by the "We Must Reform Immigration" cries now, mostly because they're coming from the same people who seem disinclined to discuss Gun Regulation because the very specific guns weren't used in a very specific instance of violence.