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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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Read this, and the comments.  Decide for yourself.  I don't believe that running to get absolution from your hand-picked echo-chamber to excuse your overt racism addresses the underlying problem.

So here's the truth: something really evil came out of me recently. I just wanted to hurt him. I wanted to get under his skin and really make him mad. He'd really pissed me off.

So I lashed out and said I'd like to break his f**king Jew nose.

[snip]

Was it a moment in unmasking my own racism or anti-semitism? Or was it a moment about just trying to be mean and hurtful?

Talks, walks and acts like a duck . . .  Humorous that the implied question is whether he's an irredeemably horrible human, or just an ass, as if that makes it okay.  But I think there's more, much more underneath the rage.

Wiki:  Central to understanding individuals diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder is that they appear to experience a limited range of human emotions; however this should be regarded critically due to current lack of exploring emotional response in detail even in animals. This can explain the lack of empathy for the suffering of others, since they cannot experience emotion associated with either empathy or suffering. Risk-seeking behavior and substance abuse may be attempts to escape feeling empty or emotionally void. The rage exhibited by psychopaths and the anxiety associated with certain types of antisocial personality disorder may represent the limit of emotion experienced, or there may be physiological responses without analogy to emotion experienced by others.

There is no statute of limitations for aggravated arson in Illimois (where the offense was committed), a class 1 felony, or for concealment of such an act.  For over a score of years, the lack of empathy, or social responsibility, has enabled this admitted alcoholic to conceal a crime that is no less egregious than murder or rape.

While our antagonist ruminates on whether an overt act of racism makes him a racist, or merely indicative of an isolated outburst of hate (something he screams about as despicable in everyone with whom he disagrees), he misses his own admitted 25 year long culpability in a crime of the highest order.

I mean, you know, when it comes to race-hate, I've seen it. I can give you that young man's name--the young man who threw the molotov cocktail into that poor woman's apartment window. I know his name even now, some 25 years later, even though no one else does (well except one or two of my homies who I know reads this blog now and then).

Disgusting.  I knew Dean Esmay was the embodiment of a whole host of vial human tendencies, but now you can add felon to the list.  That he was a juvenile at the time of the arson may or may not protect him from criminal liability, but bears no excuse for this continued concealment of the perpetrator as a adult.  Morally reprehensible doesn't even begin to cover it.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing' -- Someone very wise, but not Burke

UPDATE: Why even go there, dickhead.  I honestly though he was going to say something benign about underwear.



Posted at 8/16/2006 7:15:38 pm by The Lib  

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