Violence in Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:24 pm
People are calling a teenager who committed assault against an Australian senator a "hero".
The senator is the epitome of a xenophobic, bigoted moron, but does that make assault ok? The senator is an easy target that most people who have trouble saying he didn't deserve an egg upside the head, but it's a bad precedent.
Today we hail a kid hitting a bigot with an egg. Tomorrow a "hero" will punch a politician in the face who disagrees with __________. The day after the person that murders a politician for voting one way or the other will be the "hero".
It's a slippery slope, and in today's social media/film everything world, the slope is covered in cooking grease.
The senator is the epitome of a xenophobic, bigoted moron, but does that make assault ok? The senator is an easy target that most people who have trouble saying he didn't deserve an egg upside the head, but it's a bad precedent.
Today we hail a kid hitting a bigot with an egg. Tomorrow a "hero" will punch a politician in the face who disagrees with __________. The day after the person that murders a politician for voting one way or the other will be the "hero".
It's a slippery slope, and in today's social media/film everything world, the slope is covered in cooking grease.