Oh, geez...

[conuly]

Apparently, one day last week there were two overdoses at the St. George Ferry Terminal. Which is sad. And that editorial goes along fairly normally until the last paragraph:

And we've had the debate: Use naloxone to save overdose victims or let nature take its course? It's a different conversation when it's a friend or a loved one who's involved, but still the debate rages. Because there is no end to the drug scourge in sight.

THAT IS NOT A DEBATE. There is no debate here. What sort of amoral monster do you have to be to think that there is a debate here!?

Every once in a while I think "It might be good to be more on top of local news", and then the Advance reminds me why I don't bother. Never change, guys. Never change.

Comments

[alatefeline]

Holy s***. That is nauseating. Why the h*** do people have to be so hateful.

[conuly]

In an amazing twist, the comments aren't as bad as they usually are over at the Advance.

[alatefeline]

*facepalm*

[conuly]

This is nothing.

Four or so years ago, a man killed three different Arab (or Muslim? Or maybe Sikh? He thought they were Arab Muslims, anyway) corner store owners. Serially, not like one spree or mass murder.

And he was duly tracked down and caught at his home on Staten Island. I saw the news report and went "Holy shit, I know that house!" and decided I wanted to know how the Advance would report on this case.

Here is their headline:

Suspected serial killer's home is a Staten Island 'monstrosity'

Granted, the house is a serious eyesore, but really!?

[redbird]

I suspect the (not-so-)subtext here is "it would be nice to save white addicts' lives, but is it worth it, when that means we can't let non-white addicts die?"

"I suspect" because I am not clicking through to read the editorial. (I take your description in the same vein as james_davis_nicoll's "memetic prophylactic advised" tags.

[conuly]

Oh, that is definitely the subtext. Staten Island can be sooooooo racist. (And also classist. But mostly racist.)

[siderea]

I dunno. The enthusiasm for seeing white addicts die is pretty high. :(

[conuly]

Ah, but those white addicts are Italians, or maybe Russians, from Brooklyn. It all went downhill when they built the Bridge, you know.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a large swath of the population that is indifferent toward putting forth the effort to understand another person's situation unless similar circumstances have impacted them personally.

...I don't know how to fix them.

[conuly]

There's probably no fixing a critical lack of love for ones fellow-human.