Granted, the title of this blog is a bit broad. I could go down the road of discussing how horrid our education system has become, how money is funneled to the top 1% of people causing a wide range of disparities including education, a media conglomerate fixated on keeping the two party system in power, unchecked, and a populous confused. But, what I really want to focus on is this facebook post I came across from someone I grew up with in elementary school. It's probably a copy paste, probably not her own words, but it really shook me to my core about how dumb people can be here.
I want to go through it paragraph by paragraph, point out all the faults, and pontificate on just how someone can be drawn into something like this. It honestly baffles me.
Let's begin down this rabbit hole eh?
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I’m so confused right now. I see signs all over saying black lives matter. I’m just trying to figure out which black lives matter. It can’t be the unborn black babies. They are destroyed without a second thought. It’s not black cops. They don’t seem to matter. It’s not my black conservative friends. They are told to shut up if they know what’s best for them by their black counterparts. It’s not black business owners. Their property does not mean anything. It’s not blacks who fought in the military. Their statues are destroyed by the black lives matter protesters with disdain. So which black lives matter again?
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Whoa, ok, right off the bat we're dealing with a religious nut. I'm not even going to address the unborn black babies, there's just no convincing people who are so vehemently anti-science that a cluster of unwanted cells isn't a human. Interestingly, without science they wouldn't know what a zygote even is.
People care about black cops, who is saying otherwise?
Black conservatives don't care about themselves, so it's ok....joking of course, but seriously they aren't educated on policy enough to be making the choice of being a "conservative."
Who isn't caring about black business owners again?
No one really cares about vets, black or white, doesn't matter, every president we've had snubs them in one way or another.
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Black Lives Matter. Of course they do! Then when multiple black police officers and individuals were killed during the “peaceful protests”. I don’t see any outrage? Black individually owned businesses burned to the ground. Silence. Deadliest weekend in Chicago. NOTHING!!
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Violence in Chicago happens for many reasons. Mostly poverty, an abject failure of every political regime since Ronald Reagan. This is a result of giving all our money to the rich and leaving none for the middle class. What are people left to do? Coupled with the pandemic, and anger at the institutions we PAY FOR to protect us but instead continuously do the opposite, to a specific colored group of us, then there are no surprises here. You are "confused" because you aren't educated at all on this. Instead of trying to be, you find these diatribes on Facebook to post, further promoting how stupid you are.
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I can’t keep up. I just can’t. I’m exhausted trying to figure out what we’re all supposed to do, believe, and be offended and outraged by next.
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You are a rich white girl who never struggled a day in her life, and lacks either the time or empathy to begin to care about others enough to know what being offended should look like.
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Two months ago, First Responders were all the rage. In fact, they were heroes. We gave them free coffee, meals, and cheers as they drove by. Today, we hate them and want them defunded because they can’t be trusted.
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You are somehow confusing nurses and doctors with police I think? This is a mixing of things to try to make some generalized point, but it doesn't work.
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Two months ago, truck drivers were the heroes, as well, for keeping America moving and the grocery stores stocked. Today we block the roads with protesters, drag them out of the cabs and beat them half to death.
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Not sure what you are referring to here, but I'm guessing it was one incident which you've suddenly ballooned in your head as happening all across the country because you absorb too much fear mongering Fox News.
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Nurses and Doctors are still cool for now. But they may be unemployed. They too are heroes, unless of course they truly believe all lives matter. Then they’re filled with hate and are part of the problem like so many others.
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What?
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Just 45 days ago protests weren’t “essential” and were considered criminal, selfish and a murderous activity. Today they are gloriously critical and celebrated. All of the obvious criminal and murderous activities are simply ignored. If you protest about lock downs for freedom, you are selfish and you will spread a virus. If you protest, loot, and riot for social justice, you are a warrior and the virus fades to the background.
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Um what? Protests are not considered criminal, ever. This is part of that, uh, thing we call "freedom" here? Ya know that thing we fight to keep, that the people you likely support are subverting with every passing election right under your nose? Even to the point where a basic American right like peaceful protesting is considered "criminal" in your mind now. Good job you've let them plant their seed in your brain.
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Trust the experts. No, not those experts. Don’t wear masks ... wear masks, but only good ones. Wait, don’t wear masks, wear anything as a mask. Never mind on the masks. Not sure, but if you don’t, you hate people because you could be an asymptomatic spreader. Wait. That's not a thing anymore?
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You confuse actual experts with people you hear on Fox News, or the president himself. He is not an expert, they are not experts. Wear a fucking mask. It's not hard.
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For 3 months, NOTHING was more important than social distance. In fact, we gave up all of our liberties for it. We canceled schools, medical and dental procedures, yet allowed the murder of babies, canceled activities, closed businesses, eliminated every spring rite of passage from prom to graduation, denied people funerals, even at Arlington, and we wrecked the economy for it. Then came social justice, and social distance was no more. Now things are more cut and dry though. A thousand people at three memorials for someone they never even met. It's a matter of "respect". But you can only assemble 100 or less people.
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Wow...firstly many people were too dumb to know how to social distance, we didn't do it very well (see death toll for details). Gave up our liberties? It's a public health crisis you twat. If you are as religious as this post hits at (and ends with) then shouldn't you CARE about your fellow man's health? Do all lives matter to you, or don't they? I think they matter to you when it's convenient, and don't when it's inconvenient. Unbelievable. Nothing will ever confuse me more than religious hypocrisy.
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I’m really confused now. Look at the data, NO, not that data. Do the math. No, you can’t do the math like that. Only the experts can understand the data and math. What do you mean other cities/states/governors are interpreting the data differently? Pools are safe in Indiana, but not Michigan? Playgrounds are safe in your town but not mine? Amusement parks are safe in Florida but not Ohio, nor Michigan.
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This paragraph is just nonsense words. Why are you confused? Wear a mask. Other countries deal with these pandemics a lot, like China and South Korea. Ever see pictures of people in those countries? They wear masks often, even not during times of pandemics. Why? Because they work. They know that. You don't. It is pathetic.
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If you are silent you are part of the problem. If you speak, you are part of the problem. If you have to ask, you don’t understand. If you don’t ask, you don’t care.
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Dear god, please stay silent more.
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It’s all so predictable, tedious, and exhausting. Nothing adds up. It’s one gigantic math life problem, with ever changing denominators that I’m sure the media and politicians are eagerly ready to solve for us...until the next "crisis".
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What? Since when did you make this a math problem?
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So, for now I pray. I pray God will heal our land and bless the United States of America! Bless us with Wisdom, Kindness, Gentleness, Mercy, Love, Peace and Healing. Things that Really Matter!
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If you believe in god, and believe that he creates everything, then he created this pandemic. Now you're asking him to heal the land. Doofus is the first word that comes to mind, but I'm getting emotional a bit. God will not help you. You have to help yourself. Wear a god damn mask, stop spreading this crap around.
To conclude. I think what pisses me off most is garbage information like this spreads to people like my parents, who are old, and don't understand the internet. They don't understand what is misinformation and what isn't. They were raised on newspapers, where everything in there was written as professionally as possible by journalists who did the best job they could. Now all the information we get, even from the media, is spun in ways that don't represent reality what so ever. This dribble infects their thinking and we end up with a failed businessman, reality tv show star as our president.
And so here we are, 200,000+ dead and rising and instead of acting to fix this, we have people in our country like this, confused about what we should do despite how obvious it is, sitting in their corners praying for God to wish this away. THIS is why Americans are stupid, this. I wish it was more complex than that, but it isn't.
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