I’ve realised why I am getting so narked with all the pp saying how they abhor violence and that they wish it hadn’t happened and how awful blah blah.
Because this is just yet another example where we have to “prove” something blindingly obvious for the record.
I don’t recall any instance of anyone here wishing physical harm on OJ, or issuing threats of violence or rape or murder. Not one museum exhibit of weapons we’d use to smash his heads in Not one t shirt saying “kill LOJ”. Not one Tweet saying “OJ needs to DIAF”
Yet time and time again we feel obliged to preface anything we say with “of course I am against violence”, or “I am 100% not homophobic” or whatever.
But normal, rational people aren’t bigots, homophobes, transphobes or endorsers of violence as a starting point. We don’t go through the real world making advance preliminary statements about everything to prove we are not xxx-ist or yyy-phobic.
It‘s only in this climate, where violence and threats are routinely given out to us by aggressive, entitled activists, that we have to differentiate ourselves from it. Because by not saying it they assume we are just like them.
Fuck that.