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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 09:42 AM Apr 2013

"We have tolerated unreasoning hatred for far too long."

The Morning After
By Charles P. Pierce
at 9:00am

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All indications are that, one way or another, the bombing was a political act. It may have been the political act of madmen, but it was a political act, and it does us no good to pretend — as Chris Matthews attempted to do last night — that it was not. Somehow, somewhere, this act came from a dark vein of violence in somebody's politics. Those politics may be fashioned from mania, or even sociopathy, but they are fashioned out of politics nonetheless, and of the collapse of the faith that we can govern ourselves as we govern our passions, and that collapse is not the province of the mad or the angry. That collapse is caused by something deeply endemic in our systems and in ourselves. We have tolerated unreasoning hatred for far too long. We have abandoned the rational for the comfortable, and we have abandoned the empirical for the comfortably insane. We have given too much oxygen to the flame. We have given too much

Read more: Morning After Boston Bombings - The Morning After - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/morning-after-boston-bombings-041613#ixzz2QdJ7iBSE

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"We have tolerated unreasoning hatred for far too long." (Original Post) kpete Apr 2013 OP
Has any pundit written anything about the Boston bombing that doesn't invoke HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #1
Should anger management therapy be a walk in health service? geckosfeet Apr 2013 #2
Mocking, I get it HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #4
Not at all. Easy and effective mental health services should available and their use encouraged. geckosfeet Apr 2013 #5
Awesome rant n2doc Apr 2013 #3

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
1. Has any pundit written anything about the Boston bombing that doesn't invoke
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 09:49 AM
Apr 2013

stigmatizing language against the mentally ill as the rhetoric of selling a story?

Look at that...5 references to mental illness as disparaging descriptors in 7 sentences that were posted.


HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
4. Mocking, I get it
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 10:09 AM
Apr 2013

But the bombing has been labelled as terrorism by government at all levels.

That may yet turn out to be wrong, but terrorism is usually not a consequence of impulsiveness.

Terrorism is a political act, done with deliberation and purpose.

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)
5. Not at all. Easy and effective mental health services should available and their use encouraged.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:23 PM
Apr 2013

Far better to seek out and engage in health care than acting out with violence.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
3. Awesome rant
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 10:04 AM
Apr 2013

I love this part:

It appears that poor Nick Kristof got in more trouble than I did. Hey, Nick. You write for The New York Times. You should feel more free to tell pipsqueaks like the guy from Tiger Beat On The Potomac to piss off. Fk the begrudgers, as the late Mr. Behan used to say. You were right, too. Remember Charlie Skinner from The Newsroom, and the only truly memorable line in that entire series so far.
"I am too old to live my life in fear of dumb people."




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