Monday, January 10, 2011

It is irresponsible

For public officials, pundits and "Personalities" to NOT realize their words have impact on the marginal people among us.

Want to get your hate on? That's what your living room is for. But to tweet your condolences after posting a gun cross hair on someone's congressional district, or to let supporters shoot an M-16 at your fundraisers (shooting at your opponent's picture) and say those actions had nothing to do with any violence, is delusional. And arrogant.

That's not freedom of speech or expression, that's being a thug. 

And let's be really absurd and debate sanitizing Huckleberry Finn, one of America's great literary works. Because deleting words that were reality 120 years ago makes some people feel "better." 

Shouldn't we take care of the rhetoric today, first?

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