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As noted yesterday, the incredibly misnamed American Family Association has decided to blame all sorts of liberal organizations for the recent horrific events in Aurora, Colorado: said organizations including Mr. Blunt and Crankys ancestral church, which in fact is decidedly NOT liberal (one of its nicknames is Gods Frozen People, which should give you a fair idea of how ossified an organization it is).
Lets put the shoe on the other foot for a moment. This writer could make the case that the erosion of personal responsibility could just as easily be blamed on groups like the AFA (who blamed liberals) and individuals like Russell Pearce (who blamed the theatre audience for not stopping the shooting).
In each case, they shift responsibility away from the actual perpetrator and place it on others. By so doing, they take the shooter off the hook to some extent: the shooter was encouraged by (liberals or fake Christians or fill-in-the-blank) to take this action.
Firstly, these loudmouths have no idea what was going on the shooters mind, so they have no business saying such crap (unless there is case-specific, documented evidence to support what they are saying). Secondly, it creates an environment in which personal responsibility is diminished, because offenses committed by criminals become the fault of said loudmouths political and cultural enemies.
When everything becomes a tool for partisan advantage (even the acts of criminals and the grief of their victims), we find ourselves in a world that tells would-be mass murderers that they will not bear the blame alone. We tacitly assure these scumbuckets that others will have at least part of the responsibility foisted upon them, whether deservedly or not; all in the service of political gamesmanship.
So, we have shifted the blame from the criminal (and liberals and audience members) to the AFA and Russell Pearce. Hows that shoe feel, now that it is on your foot, gentlemen? Does it fit? Is it comfy? Do you like wearing the responsibility for mass murder? No, you say? Imagine that.
Your curmudgeonly neighborhood blogger most humbly suggests that we all shut the f***ing f*** up about how factor x or y is responsible for the actions of criminals (unless there is actual data to support such a claim), and instead let criminals know that they, and they alone, will take all of the blame and bear all of the punishment imposed for their crimes.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/hey-american-family-association-lets-blame-you-instead/
longship
(40,416 posts)Nobody brings douche baggery to mass murder like ideological religious kooks.
Fucking lower class mentally. Cave persons. Utter vultures. Praying on the dead.