February 05, 2006
The Convenience of "Friendship"
It’s amazing how people will do their best to demonize the media when someone commits a crime.
Jacob Robida went on a violence spree in a gay bar late last week, savaging patrons with a hatchet and popping off shots from a pistol left and right. To make a long story short (but not to minimize the trauma suffered by the victims of this mass display of assclownery), he escaped, killed an innocent policeman, got shot, and died.
Honestly? I hope he suffered. Fuck him and his hateful ilk, and fuck his friends for taking up for him. Which is exactly what they’re doing.
Sensibly speaking, if a friend of yours savagely murders someone, don’t act like he didn’t do it when there’s insurmountable evidence to the contrary. When you deny the fact that someone you know killed innocent people in cold blood, that’s not a display of your unwavering fidelity towards your friends. It’s a display of just how fucking stupid you are.
Just because you’re friends with someone doesn’t mean that you’re not allowed to judge them for reprehensible behavior. If anything, you should take it upon yourself to see that they’re taken care of. That’s what friendship’s about. Blind devotion doesn’t mean shit if you can’t respect someone enough to a) pull them back when they start straying off in paths that could lead to self-destruction, or b) to let common sense override your dedication to this person and muster up the salt to say, “Well, you fucked up. You did something completely moronic and reproachable, and I’m going to be the one to put my foot down.” In the real world, one not populated by Faygo-swilling dumbasses who idolize a rap duo that is obviously out there to entertain through their hilariously puerile lyrics (seriously, cutting someone’s finger off, sticking it up their ass, and gluing their rectum shut? That’s comedy.), people have to be held accountable for their actions.
Instead, a quick look at the myspace profile shows a plethora of comments ranging from obviously deluded remarks from obviously deluded minds essentially claiming that the media and everyone else doesn’t really understand why Robida did it and therefore have no right to pass judgment (slight spoiler: HE MAIMED AND KILLED PEOPLE) to the completely retarded ones who type like a Tourette’s sufferer on methamphetamines.
Now let’s get the fuck out of Fantasy Land where Robida was a victim of society, and warp back to the world of reason and justice and take a look at these comments in light of his acts of violence. What the media and everyone else has to say regarding the issue isn’t bullshit. Robida’s deeds have already provided more than enough of a basis for people to make comments on. What IS bullshit is that it’s fairly obvious that Robida intended to harm people because he didn’t agree with their lifestyle. I genuinely don’t see how he would have come up with a valid argument to defend himself, short of admitting the obvious, such as “I’m a fucking moronic homophobe.” Or “I wasn’t supposed to enjoy Brokeback Mountain, but that Jake Gyllenhaal sure is dreamy.”
Instead, we get a teenager parading in front of swastika-laden flags with a pistol aimed at the camera.
Yep, looks like an individual that’s completely innocent of committing hate crimes to me.
Instead of people being sensible and saying, “Yeah, I liked him and he was a nice guy when he wasn’t parading around with symbols of a disgusting ideology that has no scruples with burning niggers, shooting queers, and strangling those penny-pinching Jews, but those people didn’t deserve to be injured/die, and we shouldn’t trivialize it by acting like it never happened and pretending that he was a saint who just happened to trip and fall into a box filled with Insane Clown Posse merchandise and copies of Mein Kampf.”, we have shrill “friends” basically acting like it never happened and doing the whole “he was a saint” thing.
And this sort of indifference is what allows hateful bullshit to be spread throughout the world. For some people, it’s far easier to sit back and let someone be a loathsome scumbag than to step forth and make a genuine effort to stop them from being a loathsome scumbag.
Posted by Jake at February 5, 2006 05:41 PM
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