Sorry to take this even further off the rails,
but here goes...
He might as well have punched a baby
Get real.
Verbal abuse to an adult and physical abuse to a child. You really want to conflate them? An adult has the capacity to defend themselves and they should damn well use it. A child is defenseless.
I've had a lot of epitaphs tossed my way over the years. I belong to a group of people that have been the subject of derision, insult, segregation, discrimination and extermination for thousands of years. As a kid, a day didn't go by without some kind of acid-tinged remark being tossed my way. Far worse that what Kramer did. Many times, I said nothing. I wasn't going to change that person's thinking. Sometimes, I beat the living crap out of the person who said it. All that did was make me feel better, it didn't change any minds.
As an adult, I still hear it, or have to stand in someone's presence as they spout hatred. But you know what? I'm glad that they open their mouths. It tells me about who they are as a person, and it informs me about how like-minded people think and feel. I've learned that when someone spews vitriol, they are not saying anything about
me. They are talking about themselves. And if that's what they want to say, then have at it. It's freedom of speech, and it's what keeps me informed about the world around me.
There is far too much righteous indignation and knee-jerk outrage these days over some of the most pedestrian of offenses, all in the name of politically-correct me-tooism. Well, while that bandwagon rolls down the hill out of control, there are real situations in this world that few seem to give a flying fuck about. The abject failure of public education in our cities. The record numbers of minorities out of work and in prison. The record numbers of Americans in poverty. The slaughter of innocents in Syria. North Korea. It's happening now.
The genocides of
Darfur.
Rowanda.
Cambodia.
China.
Russia.
All passed with barely a murmur.
So, while you are getting your panties in a knot over a bad name that someone that you don't even know said to some faceless jerk in California, people are being slaughtered in droves, simply because of who they are or what they said. Free speech usually isn't pretty, but it's what sets us apart from much of the rest of the world.
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