All Good In The Victimhood (Volume 48)
Yesterday was a bad day for The Troops. 33 of them got to die as a reward for keeping America Free/keeping Iraq free/keeping somebody free. They were on a mission and I guess they were either successful or they failed. At some point in time they were doing something somewhere to keep somebody free. Nobody's sure anymore what's considered success and what's considered failure but we digress...
Anyway, a bad day for the Americans (33 dead) is a pretty good day for Iraqis. According to iraqbodycount.org (awesome punk band from the '90s, didn't know they move camp over to Iraq) there have been a mimimum of 15495 civilian casualities in the news since the beginning of the war. So even Ice Cube could agree that it's a good day when only 33 people die. (Back in the 90's the criteria for what was a good day was set to a higher standard but let's face it: Iraq is even more dangerous than South Central.) Not only was it news but it was front page news. Iraqis yearn for the day when only 33 of theyselves die. Everybody's sense of what is newsworthy is different it seems.
I think it's awesome when people get all sad about the toll taken on The Troops in the war. "Deadliest Day Yet" and "Superbowl Of Deadly Days" and "33 Soldiers Die In Iraq (200,000 Asians Die In Tsumani)". We get so choked up about it.
The problem is it's very difficult to play the victim card here. Between tsumani victims, Iraqi civilians, commuters in Los Angeles, and late night talk show hosts, you've got a real log jam of victims there in both quality and quantity. The troops may have to wait for a really bad day before they get to be the top story...
Victimhood is a slippery slope. To paraphrase somebody, I can't define victimhood but I know it when I see it. Shit happens when you're out of your element and kicking ass in someone else's back yard ie: the suburbs of Baghdad. If you're quietly resting in your mother's womb and somebody rips you out of there before you're finished with your afternoon nap, you get to be a victim. If you're wearing camoflage and bringing democracy to a people via killing all voting-age males in that country, you don't get to be a victim. Sorry y'all.
PS: Mad respect to Franky Pelvis for successfully fighting back the latest round of Bullshit in the news. If Bullshit was a human pyramid, Franky would be right on top of it. Cheerleaders form human pyramids, prisoners do too. Franky's the top hat on a debonair batch of bullshit:
Anyway, a bad day for the Americans (33 dead) is a pretty good day for Iraqis. According to iraqbodycount.org (awesome punk band from the '90s, didn't know they move camp over to Iraq) there have been a mimimum of 15495 civilian casualities in the news since the beginning of the war. So even Ice Cube could agree that it's a good day when only 33 people die. (Back in the 90's the criteria for what was a good day was set to a higher standard but let's face it: Iraq is even more dangerous than South Central.) Not only was it news but it was front page news. Iraqis yearn for the day when only 33 of theyselves die. Everybody's sense of what is newsworthy is different it seems.
I think it's awesome when people get all sad about the toll taken on The Troops in the war. "Deadliest Day Yet" and "Superbowl Of Deadly Days" and "33 Soldiers Die In Iraq (200,000 Asians Die In Tsumani)". We get so choked up about it.
The problem is it's very difficult to play the victim card here. Between tsumani victims, Iraqi civilians, commuters in Los Angeles, and late night talk show hosts, you've got a real log jam of victims there in both quality and quantity. The troops may have to wait for a really bad day before they get to be the top story...
Victimhood is a slippery slope. To paraphrase somebody, I can't define victimhood but I know it when I see it. Shit happens when you're out of your element and kicking ass in someone else's back yard ie: the suburbs of Baghdad. If you're quietly resting in your mother's womb and somebody rips you out of there before you're finished with your afternoon nap, you get to be a victim. If you're wearing camoflage and bringing democracy to a people via killing all voting-age males in that country, you don't get to be a victim. Sorry y'all.
PS: Mad respect to Franky Pelvis for successfully fighting back the latest round of Bullshit in the news. If Bullshit was a human pyramid, Franky would be right on top of it. Cheerleaders form human pyramids, prisoners do too. Franky's the top hat on a debonair batch of bullshit:
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