[Mr. Pumblechook]

Truly, I don’t know what you mean. Deep in my heart I know that it was wrong to feel the way I did about Teddy’s diagnosis. Fine. Most all on FR also were Christian about the whole thing. But it rubs me wrong (and it should rub you wrong too) to see that Christian kindness is reserved for fat, rich, evil, white men who kill innocent women in their cars, but if you’re a dirty low-life shoplifter, female and statistically likely to be black, then your HORRIBLE DEATH (as oppososed to being merely ill like Teddy) is a cause for celebration. Wealthy, evil white man who kills a woman and wants my guns gets Christian kindness. Poor black woman who SHOPLIFTS and dies HORRIBLY gets laughed at. Something wrong here?

[beezdotcom]

Wealthy, evil white man who kills a woman and wants my guns gets Christian kindness. Poor black woman who SHOPLIFTS and dies HORRIBLY gets laughed at. Something wrong here?

Apples and oranges. Unless you can show that driving off a bridge causes cancer, there is no irony connecting the two events - and the irony is what generates the humor.

But aside from that, it takes real chutzpah to come into a thread where people are actually acting respectfully, and try to stir it up in such a manner. I can picture you barging in on someone's funeral, and interrupting the eulogy to rant in the aisles that the speaker said nasty things to some homeless guy outside. I believe there's an obscure phrase in use that says "two wrongs don't make a right".

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

If no one else here gets your point, I do.