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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If I hear one more fucking white suburban douchebag, or clueless fucking soccer mom, talk about how that woman who admonished her son for rioting on camera is a "hero," I'm going to snap the bottom of my martini glass off and spear them in the eye with it... until it punctures their cerebral cortex.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Motherfucker. Goddammit! Fuck, fuck, fuck! The city is on fire due to protests that have to do with police brutality and decades of govt policies that are turning lower middle class areas into third world slums. Now, we might disagree about what should be done about these things. Frankly, I don't think the situation is fixable. But what's not up for debate is that the situation exists, and has been caused in significant part by govt policies and changes in the global economy! The most important and interesting aspect of this thing is not that some Black mother is mad at her son for rioting. And anyone who elevates such a peripheral bit of the story to prominence betrays one of the following:

1. Idiocy (you're actually stupid enough to think the mother/son scene is as important as the broader issues underpinning the riot);
2. Head in Sand-ism (you'd rather focus on any bit of the story that seems possibly positive and allows you to ignore or avoid discussion of the broader issues underpinning the riot); or,
3. Dickheadedness (you're an asshole looking for any way to blame the rioters exclusively, and absolve the system/status quo, which you happen to like, from any responsibility).

I have found that if you ignore twitter, yahoo/yahoo comments, espn comments, and use facebook infrequently, these type of inane soccer mom comments (or any other idiocy) cease to exist. It's glorious - try it out.