Opinion | Smiths Station mayor’s suicide should serve as a lesson for all of us
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We have fostered an environment in which a man who has apparently committed no crimes nor harmed anyone is shamed into ending his life.

We have fostered an environment in which a man who has apparently committed no crimes nor harmed anyone is shamed into ending his life.

  • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
    484·
    11 months ago

    We

    Okay this author can fuck right off with this ‘we’ garbage. Republicans did this. If you’re too chicken shit to be specific with your pontificating then you’re just a worthless pearl clutching asshole.

    Edit: lol at these morons assuming I must be unaware that ALreporter is an Alabama news source and that it somehow should serve to invalidate anything I’ve said. This editorial is garbage. It’s not the fault of Alabamians, it’s the fault of Alabama Republicans and by extension the national party. Anything short of assigning blame where it belongs, squarely at the feet of the Republican party, is a blatant lie and a transparent attempt to spread blame onto those who bear no responsibility for this tragedy whatsoever.

    • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      It’s not the fault of Alabamians, it’s the fault of Alabama Republicans and by extension the national party. Anything short of assigning blame where it belongs, squarely at the feet of the Republican party, is a blatant lie and a transparent attempt to spread blame onto those who bear no responsibility for this tragedy whatsoever.

      The author is criticizing the influence of religion on politics and policy. I would like to hear why you think he should be blaming the Republican party instead of the religious roots of hateful policies.

      That reasoning only makes sense if you inject your personal religious beliefs. Without them – without the self-righteousness to determine what is or isn’t sinful – what are you actually left with in this ordeal?
      …
      Who are you to judge him for that?
      …
      From trying to remove LGBTQ+ books from libraries to essentially banning transgender kids from existence to forcing children to have children, the state of Alabama, under conservative rule, has cornered the market on religious governance.
      Just as the Founders absolutely did not intend.
      …
      I hate to break this to you, but in this country where religious freedom has kept us from constant civil war, the fact that your Christian beliefs find crossdressing abhorrent or a book about gay teens unacceptable is utterly irrelevant. Or, at least, it should be.
      …
      Yet, we continue to push these distorted Christian beliefs as actual policy and law.

    • SuperSpaceFan@lemm.eeEnglish
      107·
      11 months ago

      If you scroll just below the article you’ll see the following about the author: “Josh Moon is an investigative reporter and featured columnist at the Alabama Political Reporter with years of political reporting experience in Alabama.” That tells me the ‘we’ is his Alabama audience.

    • DreamerofDays@kbin.social
      1110·
      11 months ago

      It’s an Alabama focused news site. The we can apply to either Alabamans, media outlets, or both. So that’s the we, and likely one you’re not a part of.

      If you are in that we, it sucks, but if you’re going to be part of a whole with your neighbors, you’re going to have to own the consequences of their ideas sometimes. Maintaining a separation from them might make you feel morally superior, but it’s not going to do anything to negate those consequences or prevent future ones.

      Separating is a powerful act, but it should be a rare one.