aibu to have just called my cousing a fuckiing wanker on FB? I am raging

[lolaflores]

He posted a horrific picture of a victim of the Boston bombing. headlined, this is what happens when you don't finish the job!!!! Above which is a man on the floor with his leg blown off from below the knee and just a shin bone left...
I AM FUCKING FURIOUS
Cousin lives in Boston but born in Ireland. Full NRA etc. think this has got to mean blocking him. nothing else for it.
I called hm a fucking wanker. we don't even know who is responsible.
Might be in trouble with some folk. oh dear. oh dear.
Anger management for me d'ya think?

Anger management for me d'ya think?

No I don't think. You have every right to feel angry.

Well Cecily I have not been moved to such rage for a while now. I am ashamed he is related to me. Think I might tell his mum on him. Even his brother was shocked. How do people get so bought into the ideas in America and feel so comfortable making such outrageous comments? As his brother pointed out, any of his own kids, nieces and nephews (ranges from 19 down) could've seen that!

I'm surprised he hadn't posted a pile of stuff about the poor man from Saudi who got tackled to the ground, running and bleeding like many others, and was then held in the hospital whilst his apartment was ransacked and half the US press began demonising him before any evidence to support the arrest was found.

How do people get so bought into the ideas in America and feel so comfortable making such outrageous comments?

Ah but aren't they the same ones as that were all Up the 'Ra and supporting Noraid in the 80s. I don't know that they are becoming American, just a particular type of Irish-American that has always existed dating right back to Tammany Hall.

True enough Movingtimes. There a few in Boston like that during the 80's. We said nothing, they really didn't have a clue but they thought they were "helping" somehow.
He said "this is the reality"
I reminded him I live in London. I know the reality. working here during the two bombings we experienced and plenty of other nastiness before, so don't fucking talk to me about reality.
They get a real Pompous Virus and righteousness that will brook no argument from people who live the horror day to day. (not me but others).
Just blinkered beyond beliefe.