Patterico's Pontifications

4/19/2005

Why I Don’t Read Atrios

Filed under: Scum — Patterico @ 6:41 pm



Because he writes posts like this one, which mocks the way that Sen. Rick Santorum dealt with the death of his severely premature son.

This is the ugly side of the left.

(Hat tip to Pejman, without whose pointer I never would have read this trash.)

2 Responses to “Why I Don’t Read Atrios”

  1. What do you mean “the”.

    Transnational liberalism is multifaceted. It is always changing its Janus-like face to reveal another even more hideous than what we had seen before.

    The more we put these facades of liberalism to the test, the more we reveal the ugliness of the underlying motives.

    Novak wrote a good column today in this regards: < a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/novak/novak200504190839.asp">Culture in Crisis.

    Paul Deignan (5bc237)

  2. I’m gonna draw a comparison here that may come off as inappropriate. Bear with me. I think my point is sound.

    My roommate and I recently lost our dog to cancer. He was 11 years old. He was very much a member of the family. His death hit me harder than anything I’ve ever experienced. I imagine that what I felt must have been in the same neighborhood, if not exactly like, the loss of a child.

    When Nelson died, I didn’t want to leave him. I wanted to continue to hold him and snuggle him and scratch him on his butt in that special spot he always liked. He wasn’t really dead to me. He was just … sleeping. And I didn’t want to turn and walk away.

    An outsider would have seen the two of us holding the corpse of a dead animal. But to us, he was our pet. He was our best friend. He was dead, yes, but only in the most strictly literal sense. He was still very much alive to us.

    I will never mock the way anybody chooses to deal with loss and grief. Not after that. Not after experiencing it for myself. Not after going through it myself. Not after having to deal with it in my own way.

    I think that anybody who would choose to mock someone’s loss probably falls into one of two camps. He’s either somebody who’s been so lucky in his life to have never lost anyone of his own, or he’s massively, inhumanly insensitive.

    Jeff Harrell (a5b150)


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