Where and when did I “dance on [Bourdain’s] grave? Or anyone else for that matter?
From just about everything I’ve read on this thread Bourdain was criticized for using his cuisine show as a platform to advocate his ideology. Some of the denser posters here conflated criticism of his political views and public advocacy with a celebration of the man’s death.
Sometimes people use media to represent themselves for more than who they are. The courts identify such people as “public figures”. We don’t know them personally but for what they represent themselves as.
When you represent yourself as a supporter of a reprehensible and wholly un-redeeming ideology you are bound to suffer some collateral damage in the thoughts and prayers of decent people.
"Oh, gee... that’s so sad... sniff. He had so much left to give to the world of, um, cooking or something. Cue the violins. Actually, I couldn’t give a flying fox if some CNN anti-Trump asshole offed himself. I would be even more delighted if the rest of the anti-American worms at CNN followed suit. Who knows? It might even start a trend among the left." - Pravious
"Happy trails you miserable drug addled SOB." - JonPreston
"There's nothing wrong with celebrating the death of an enemy." - Greeting_Puny_Humans
"The man was a millionaire hypocrite limousine communist POS. When we are nice they mistake that for weakness. This has to stop, there is surely some cause for celebration here." - cantral_va
First two pages of this thread.
See post# 427 as a wonderful example as well.