Posted on 09/21/2002 2:46:55 PM PDT by GnuHere
Showed up in an SUV in Indiana.
You're not funny when you reduce the beating of a child to politics.
Either you're a contrarian, and you're just baiting us, or you're galactically stupid.
Either way, I'm done with you.
I thought this was a political forum. No?
I did not anticipate that you or anyone else would see my post as reducing the beating of a child. It was not my intention to reduce the beating of a child, and I'd like to see someone post a quote where I have done that. My intention was to try to show FReepers what can happen when the mob mentality takes over. The media were the baiters in this scenario today, and many of my fellow FReepers sucked down their line as though it had no hook on it.
If the media have FReepers wagging every time they shake a stick, no wonder the sheeple out there are swayed.
Allow me to ping you over to any thread wherein the Islamic religion is being discussed. There will be fertile ground for you to apply your disdain for mob mentality there.
You're reaching and using Hollywood stereotyping on that one Illbay. I would like to see your proof. From my observances, I would say urban white trash in all parts of the country are in trouble family-intactness-wise.
I like you I really do but you've sure got this Southern axe to grind. I work in a white trash area of Nashville and I've seen the demise you refer to everywhere even in Minneapolis or Boston or Miami....same old thing. Lower income white trash has lost it's dignity (and yes it did once have some) for the most part. I would not place rural Southerners in exactly the same hell-in-a-handbasket.
White trash, "Hispanic" trash, Black trash, Asian trash are all melding together to mold one big underbelly of poverty and illegitimacy and thuggishness celebrating culture and it is a decidedly urban or near-urban trend.
You simply will not find the same trend with Nebraska farm folks or cotton growers in Mississippi or Wyoming cattle ranchers.
Respectfully.
FReepers expressed their outrage, and justifiably so. What was the result of their expressing that outrage? Was the abusive mother harmed? Was she beaten? Was she stoned? Was she hanged?
I suggest the result of their expressing their outrage is that some lurkers and even some presently-posting FReepers who beat their children are soberly reconsidering their actions. Their children will be a liitle safer after today.
Great good can come from a community's verbally expressing its outrage over the reprehensible conduct of a few of its self-obsessed members. Shame can be, and should be, a positive virtue.
But you can claim no part in this good. You resisted it with phony condemnations and self-righteous swoonings over a "mob mentality" that caused no one any harm.
Hell yes This could have been a clear case of self-defense. What are these people on this thread thinking anyway?
They are profoundly sick, and they are profoundly proud of it. That they claim to be conservatives mortifies me.
Someone needs to remind the loons on occasion that they are not squatting at "FreeToDoEvil.com"
Go beat a child. But don't do it in my presence or let me know any particulars about it. I'll see to it you are dealt with incredible ugly swiftness by the authorities. That's not a threat, but an iron-clad promise.
You need a dose of humble pie, Kevin Curry. The very idea that you would accuse fellow FReepers of being child beaters is waaaaaaaaay over the top.
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