Stop that right now!
May. 27th, 2010 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsNeil Gaiman was the last straw. This morning Gaiman tweeted: "Vaguely disappointed to learn that BP’s 'top kill procedure' will leave its entire executive strata alive."
In the past few days, as the procedure for top kill has been publicized, I've heard Bill O'Reilly suggest the entire staff of MSNBC be shoved down there to block up the hole, and Stephanie Miller suggested O'Reilly and Limbaugh together might be enough, and there have been other attempts at "comedy" with suggestions of, basically, murdering groups of people and using their bodies as raw materials.
I understand that emotions are high, but can we please stop wishing, even as a joke, for the painful deaths of people who, whatever their failings and responsibilities, don't deserve that level of hatred?
In the past few days, as the procedure for top kill has been publicized, I've heard Bill O'Reilly suggest the entire staff of MSNBC be shoved down there to block up the hole, and Stephanie Miller suggested O'Reilly and Limbaugh together might be enough, and there have been other attempts at "comedy" with suggestions of, basically, murdering groups of people and using their bodies as raw materials.
I understand that emotions are high, but can we please stop wishing, even as a joke, for the painful deaths of people who, whatever their failings and responsibilities, don't deserve that level of hatred?
