And it also bugs me to no end when people refer to the Cleveland tragedy as “inspirational.” (Like in this article on DailyKos). People were tortured and debased for a decade. To use their pain as an inspirational message is disgusting.
Yeah, there is always value to be squeezed out of other people’s suffering.
And look how the article begins:
In all the heartbreaking amazement of the transfixing story coming out of Cleveland, Ohio. . .
Sounds like a commercial for a sappy Hollywood flick. I wonder, if the article’s author had been a victim of this crime, would she refer to it as an amazing and transfixing story? You read the first line and it seems like something totally cool has happened.
The way the Cleveland tragedy is reported is seriously creeping me out.
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Sappy Hollywood flick? With that many adjectives, it reads like a 12 year-old’s creative writing project.
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It’s an outstandingly stupid article. If it’s inspirational for a neighbour to go and help a woman next door who’s screaming and crying for help, God help us. That’s just NORMAL behaviour. If he hadn’t gone, he would have been a monster.
It raises questions about just how far society has sunk that such excessive terms are used to describe such normal neighbourly behaviour, and that this behaviour is considered as being exceptional, as though normal behaviour is to be a monster.
That’s some scary society! The irony is of course, that Americans like to believe they live in neighbourhoods where they look out for their neighbours.
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Yes, the guy who heard the screams and went to see what was happening is now a hero. A simple, normal action is a sign of heroism, which was kind of weird to read on the day when the victory over Nazism was celebrated.
But I guess among people who see naked women crawling around and just yawn in response, that’s an act of heroism, indeed.
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