To you yes, to others he is considered cool and people want to imitate him. Have you not seen the merchandise that goes with Cartman?

Helen: I am just wondering if this qualifies as a hate crime…

My first reaction is “of course not – they aren’t the right kind of minority”. After thinking about it a bit one of the criteria for being a ‘ginger’ is to be “anti-black”. I think if they use the word ‘black’ and not ‘fair skin’ which makes people think ‘white’ they may have a hate crime to deal with. I wonder if South Park has ever had a “Kick a Black” day? Or “Kick a Jew day”? Or “Kick a Muslim day”?

John –

Very well said.

MK –

What is this thing that moves in us and can cause us one minute to impart such horrors as beheading a man for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or fly planes into buildings or open fire on fellow classmates, but also cause them to compose sonatas, bring their wife flowers, or rush into burning buildings to save a stranger? Crazy, no?

“Could it be…SATAN?”
– The Church Lady

How is it that the human spirit can be so profoundly beautiful, and yet so unspeakably ugly.

Didn’t the Nazi soldier, after a day of gassing Jews, go home and tuck his daughter into bed, with a gentle kiss and all the love that any father can know? So is he good, or bad?

What is this thing that moves in us and can cause us one minute to impart such horrors as beheading a man for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or fly planes into buildings or open fire on fellow classmates, but also cause them to compose sonatas, bring their wife flowers, or rush into burning buildings to save a stranger? Crazy, no?

This is one of those ???? well, whatt is this mement ???? . I had another decades ago. Ted Bradley (of 60 Minutes) had been a cub reporter in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Pol Pot (of Cambodis’s Commie Rouge) was on its killing rampage then. Eventually, over 1/5th the Cambodian people would be killed. [That'd be 40 million Americans in today's terms.]

Ted related an event that still haunts me too this day. One night a group of Pot’s soldiers attacked a village. They entered one hut, where a whole family had been sleeping on the floor (customary there). They proceeded to butcher both parents and two teens. Only a small boy (10 years) and his little sister (7) remained alive.

To have some ‘fun’, the soldiers shoved a loaded gun into the boy’s hands. They demanded hat he ‘kill’ his sister or else they both would die. The boy then shot/killed his sister.

My outrage was instantaneous about how insipidly evil such an act was. Then upon learning ‘the soldiers’ were themselves likely of the 10-12 year age, my reaction was somehow beyond finding blame … just wanted such atrocity to stop.
Like in the ‘abortion wars’, I do not wish evil or retaliation on anyone. Just stop …. please!