Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Jake Tapper LAUGHS At Larry Kudlow As He Lies About COVID" video.

I just heard Sam's co-presenter say that if the virus kills people in red states, she referred to it as the "chud belt" it would be a silver lining. I had to play it a couple of times to be sure I'd heard correctly. I'm not protesting this to be morally or ethically clean. I'm bringing it up because a human being doesn't view the potential deaths of millions of people as a benefit under any circumstances. I understand the anger even the rage because I frequently feel it too but the vast majority of people living there are ignorant not actively evil. Wishing them dead or making jokes contemplating their deaths with a kind of macabre relish is ugly and makes us darker. Don't make jokes like that. It's not funny or edgy and it hands ammunition to people on the right that we do not need to give them. Worse it makes me wonder about my place on the left. Do we really consider the potential deaths of uneducated, ignorant people as a silver lining? When I think about that I feel anger and sorrow. No matter how much we disagree with the majority of people in those states, they are human beings. They have children, families, loved ones, hopes and dreams. They've been poorly served by the educational system in this country. There are reasons for the way they think and those reasons are what we should fight. When I'm confronted with a Trump supporter stomping and spewing hatred, I lack patience and get angry but I would not make a joke, at least I hope it was a joke, that their potential deaths to this pandemic would be a silver lining.
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