The Hen wrote:The colour of the stupidity made no difference to me. The stupidity of the action was the key to this story. Why are you trying to change stupidity into a race issue?
Hen, because it does appear to make a difference to some here, not you of course. It is more of an American thing. It is just not funny when a black man is killed but it is hilarious when a redneck bites the dust. You will notice that the jokes stopped as soon as the race of the victim was known. My people on the other hand are evil and stupid and deserves what happens to them.
Isn't it racist to assume that black people can't be hillbillies?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
liberty wrote:It is just not funny when a black man is killed but it is hilarious when a redneck bites the dust. You will notice that the jokes stopped as soon as the race of the victim was known. My people on the other hand are evil and stupid and deserves what happens to them.
No, the jokes stopped when a more complete and accurate account of what happened was posted. The story in the OP was both wrong and short on facts, presenting only a cartoon of the occurrence. And cartoons beget jokes. In the absence of information, people will fill in the gaps so that whatever facts they have create a coherent narrative -- even if that narrative is completely wrong. (That's why detective stories are popular.) The Southern-idiots-with-guns storyline has been presented so many times in the setting of "good ole boys" that it is natural to fill in the gaps with the standard tropes and conventions of the genre: "Hold my beer" and "Hey y'all watch this" are punchline cliches for a reason.
So an eight month old puppy tugs at a child's shirttails and the dog needs shooting?
I guess I should have shot the neighbor's dog the other day when it did the same thing - chased my BF's (running) son and tugged at his shirttails. Of course, he's not a pitbull puppy, he's a Boston Terrier or some such breed. He's also harmless.
It's too bad that hysteria over this breed leads to such ignorant knee-jerk reactions resulting in death of a human (and likely the dog, too, as he'll doubtless be put down to assuage the grieving family's hysteria).
Did the dog even bite the man? Probably not. A pitbull determined to bite him would have drawn some blood before his wife did.
A puppy. Doing what puppies do.
I'm not laffing.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
