Angry as hell
Submitted by James on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 8:36am
One of my daily blog stops is Ed Cone's, where folks from the Triad cover local issues from every angle. It's a cross-spectrum group, always entertaining and often interesting. Today's discussion includes comments from an unhinged asshole called Angry as hell. People like this are the base of the radical right, hardly a step removed from Art Pope's crowd in Wake County.
Every now and then, when I start to have hope about this fragile world, jerks like Angry come along to remind me that our species is barely more evolved than pit bulls, rabid frothing at the mouth and lusting for blood. If god gave us brains hoping we'd use them for goodness and peace, she is surely disappointed with her grand experiment.
Careful of Limbaughism
An obnoxious commenter who says stupid things, to the point I've suspected he's a parody. Certainly a troll.
Some of his ugly ideas are in fairly wide circulation, and it's important to fight birtherism and violent rhetoric.
But at the same time, remember that a favorite tactic of Limbaugh et al is taking an extreme example and using it to discredit a much broader segment of the population. Let's be careful of doing the same.
In fairness, there's substantial pushback against him from conservative readers at my blog.
Indeed
I didn't mean to disparage the blog or the community at all. I love edcone.com and visit regularly.
Today I was looking at life through my optimistic lens, when I came across the asshole. It gave me pause. Not about your blog, but about some of the people we share our world with.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.