Ugly seems to beget ugly
Friends of mine, sadly, were robbed last week in what was an amazingly brazen daylight robbery. The stolen TV was a 40th birthday gift for one of the more dear husbands I know. I hope these criminals get caught and go to jail.
Luckily, my friends are very smart friends and they have the robbers on videotape. The Tallahassee Democrat wrote about the robbery and posted the video.
As if this story didn’t already say too much about what’s wrong with human beings, a look through the comments on The Democrat’s story will put you over the edge. Here’s just a wee sample:
1. Suspect # 2 is “Bubba” from “Forrest Gump!!! I’m sure they’re all fine, upstanding FSU football players. With the economic downturn, Uncle Bobby can’t afford those dorm perks anymore.
2. it looks like that perp on holirottenwoods vidio, kinda looks like holirottenwood, sh*t ,just throw them all in jail, so they can hang out with their buddies and stop 90% of the crime.
3. the problem is that you can find, for each one of these “fine, upstanding young men of their community,” at least 50 or so copies (in terms of looks) in Frenchtown.
4. TDO is not going to stop Frank987 [from posting white supremacist videos] because they AGREE with him. Watch how quickly TDO removes this [a video of Mike Wallace confronting Louis Farrakhan].
I called my poor robbed friend about this horrible online dialog; turns out she was similarly sickened. She had something to say about it…
the problem i have with these individuals is that they STOLE something from my home, it is not about their skin color. it is the choices they made and NOT their ethnic heritage that makes them criminals. i think the people who are making disparaging comments about AN ENTIRE RACIAL community are STEALING something of infinite worth from that community in the same way that these three individuals stole something of much less value from us…
i wish i had a camera on the computer of the folks who type in those hateful comments so that we could show their photos as well. and we might catch some of them with the pants down also…
Maybe the worst part of this story is that this sort of dialog is really the standard disturbing filth than seems to be the coin of the realm in online “community” (and I use that word only because I have to). If it isn’t people hating because of color (same ick whichever direction), it’s people hating because of ethnicity or people hating because of political affiliation.
We have this amazing technological tool we could use to make this world a better place (uh, we could start by trying to catch these guys) and instead we spew hate.
Way to go.
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