Lots of people were saying they are glad he's dead and no one gave it a second thought. Some of them are probably here saying celebrating someone's death is the downfall of society.
I dont really celebrate any of them. Maybe if someone personally harmed my family I would be able to contain myself, but I think a fair line should be drawn that they have to have at least harmed someone in a personal or tangible way equal to death. Being bat crap loony about the function of the American political system isnt a valid reason to most people. Was she crazy? Maybe. Warped in her political views? Seems that way. Deserve to have her gruesome death celebrated? Gross.
Personally, I feel conflicted about celebrating or rejoicing over someone's death even when the dead person did very heinous things such as murder. This lady doesn't come near that zone of conflict for me. I do remember Hitchens being invited on Hannity after Jerry Falwell's death and then being chastised for speaking his mind - that he was glad Falwell was gone. Despite my personal traits, I thought Hitchens made some fair points in that context, particularly given that his opinion was solicited in the first place.
Everyone is going to draw their own line though, there can be no other way. In my opinion, if you (the rhetorical you, dont want another post about if this is about you specifically ) start a thread like this, on a forum like this, you are basically asking for it. Its entrapment.
Like I said earlier, its hard to arouse any anger or emotion over someone I had never heard of until they died. But if someone feels something (whether its grief, sadness or jubilation), who am I to judge?
For what it's worth, I actually think most discussions on here are more civil and substantive than what we typically see from our elected officials and than most political discussions happening on social media. But maybe my bar is set very, very low, lol.
I didn't say it was good now, but people were extremely vicious back then. All the people that had no restraint at all have all been banned or left lol. The threads were much more permissive back then too, like you could post a chain email or just bait people, which always took a bad turn.
Meh, somebody said something offensive about a person that just died and a list of anti-virtue signalers came in to virtue signal. Pretty much the same as it was 5 years ago. Or 10. Or 15.
I remember a mod back in those days that used to refer to Obama as "The Black Guy" or a series of racial slurs.
We had Zeus, our very own IQ race scientist. We still have a few unrepentant racists now, but he made the ones now look like Atticus Finch.
The forum had a mod who literally posted Old Testament scripture that read pretty much like he was praying for Obama’s death, then all the “Christian’s” would try to explain how he wasn’t really doing that (or didn’t mean it, or wasn’t really true Christian, or… whatever). I think basically saying, “hey, whatever, never heard of this person but good riddance to bad garbage” is a far cry from that. I recall this exact same debate when a few of the covid misinformation peddlers got covid and died. Some of us saw that as a bizarre form of karma, not because we disagreed with those people, but because they may have actually been indirectly causing harm/deaths. It isn’t mere disagreement, there is a tangible harm they were causing… even if indirectly. This woman of course is not a mass murderer, but her delusion is dangerous and could possible lead down an evil/violent path (as we vividly saw on 1/6). Maybe she actually disavowed that garbage, but if not…
