Posted on 11/29/2014 10:22:25 AM PST by Steelfish
Black Friday Brawl Videos Are How Rich People Shame The Poor Stop Gawking.
By Luke O'Neil November 28
The biggest movie in the country right now is “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1,” a film in which the ostentatiously wealthy people of Panem’s capital rule over the poorer districts from which tributes are selected each year to kill each other in a violent media spectacle. It’s a grotesque display in which the lives of the impoverished are offered up as entertainment for the comfortable.
It’s hard to see the film and not think of the way TV news has covered Black Friday. Consider the jocular hosts’ grinning affect as they relate news of brawls throughout the country in this clip from Fox & Friends First today, for example, or how numerous Web sites will round up the best brawl videos.
As Yahoo News writes on the spread of Black Friday violence to Britain this year, “That means even more grown adults fighting over discounted underwear, and more opportunities to for us to gawk at them.”
Or take this video of a fight inside of a Houston Wal-Mart. You’ll notice producers from a variety of television programs — “Good Morning America,” Fox News, CNN — all asking for permission to use the video on their broadcasts, because they know this type of shopper-on-shopper violence is a huge draw.
Mixed in with those, perhaps unsurprisingly, are a bevy of comments comparing the shoppers to animals, or savages, or making horrifically offensive racist comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The author. So many clichés...he really needs to try harder (snicker)
“There was a day when people who didn’t have much worldly wealth still conducted themselves with dignity.
It’s lack of class and upbringing more than lack of money. I may want to throw in lack of brain matter as well.”
You nailed it right there. My Dad was the oldest of 11 children and was born in 1922. The Great Depression wasn’t kind to the family, but the ones who went through the hardest part were the most successful in life.
And no libtards gonna tell me that I can't.
Black friday is not about being poor, it’s about being wealthy enough to worship materialism. Instead of being thankful for what they have, it’s all about being thankful for what they can get. Big difference, and pure evil.
Notice how this freak embeds the videos in his article pimping the fights, so people will click on it.
That said, has anyone coined the term “brawl-mart” yet?
Actually, I believe that the proper training and upbringing will bring about greater thinking - sometimes the simple are wiser than the brilliant, depending on the upbringing.
I imagine of they edited out any pictures of blacks and only showed poor whites it would be just fine with this Luke O'Neil fellow. I bet he thinks those "People of WalMart" websites are hilarious.
And they should be ashamed!! But unfortunately for us they have no shame.
Agreed!!!
No, those videos show how the poor shames themselves with greed.
Greed isn’t just for rich people.
It’s hard to see the film and not think of the way TV news has covered Black Friday. Consider the jocular hosts’ grinning affect as they relate news of brawls throughout the country in this clip from Fox & Friends First today, for example, or how numerous Web sites will round up the best brawl videos.
ping
How did our nation lose sight of common truth?
You are responsible for You!
Oh yeah, i remember now. The govt is my shephard i will be fleeced. It make me to work low wage jobs and depend on handouts...
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. - Ben Franklin
So the rich are to blame for the animals in the zoo. If anything this is a refection of government run education and the lack of it
More liberal patronizing of the poor.
They would never do this with white people because white people, by nature, are just superior or privileged. Even poor white people. Black people, on the other hand, are just forever losers in racial comparison. Their sense of racial superiority is racist and dangerous.
Stereotypes rarely coalesce from thin air.
Only half as good as viewing in person, live.
Couple of years ago the cashier at WM was complaining that she was off yesterday and missed the fights.
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