Senseless Jackassery
Eric Luedtke decides to try to score political points with tragedy and a senseless act of violence:
I certainly for one grieve for Gwatney and his family. Nobody should be killed for their political views if that is indeed the case. But this is certainly not the time for the finger pointing and speculation that Luedtke engages in. That's senseless jackassery and is totally inappropriate.
CNN is reporting that Bill Gwatney, the Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, was shot and killed today by a gunman who entered the office to seek him out. No word yet on the motive, but there is of course the possibility that this is a copycat of the attack on the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, which was targeted for political reasons.That's right, Luedtke wants to throw the right-wing under the bus for this hours after a senseless murder.
I certainly for one grieve for Gwatney and his family. Nobody should be killed for their political views if that is indeed the case. But this is certainly not the time for the finger pointing and speculation that Luedtke engages in. That's senseless jackassery and is totally inappropriate.
posted by Brian Griffiths at 10:19 PM
1 Comments:
I couldn't agree less.
Certainly more needs to be learned before making judgments, but every time a conservative person cries foul when such suggestions are made, what I hear is someone who doesn't have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge that, just as with certain liberals they don't hesitate to point the finger at, there are flaws in conservative rhetoric and the way some deliver it that make what people like Leudke are saying entirely feasible.
What I want to know is, when will both sides of the politcal debate and culture war finally take responsibility for their own harmful behaviors and mend their ways?? It is clear to me that it is getting out of hand, and I'd have to be an idiot to not see that lives are at stake.
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