I've been meaning to respond to this, but haven't had time to put my thoughts into words. I heard something on CNN today that kind of drives home my point.
So we have Michael Vick, who has plead guilty to killed his fighting dogs by such humane methods as hanging and drowning. The NAACP, for some unfathomable reason has agreed to help this monster keep his job in the NFL. They were on TV today responding to a panel's questions. They argued that Vick is a man and men are redeamable so therefore, he shouldn't be fired.
OK, well, isn't Imus a man? Why isn't he redeemable? Rev. Al and the NAACP were calling for his permanent dismissal and he didn't kill anything; he just said something a lot of people didn't like. Yet, in the NAACP's view, Vick should only be suspended for a season while Imus needed to be fired permanently.
Oh, another argument they had was something to the effect of "while lots of NFL fans are animal lovers, others just want to see Vick play". Umm... holy crap! Whether you're an animal lover or not, I think anyone in civilized culture would agree that it takes a real psychopath to breed dogs to rip each other apart and then kill them by torture when they loose.
It's not so much that these activist groups exist that bothers me; it's the ridiculous double-standards they try to pass as moral arguments that makes me want to pull my hair out.
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So we have Michael Vick, who has plead guilty to killed his fighting dogs by such humane methods as hanging and drowning. The NAACP, for some unfathomable reason has agreed to help this monster keep his job in the NFL. They were on TV today responding to a panel's questions. They argued that Vick is a man and men are redeamable so therefore, he shouldn't be fired.
OK, well, isn't Imus a man? Why isn't he redeemable? Rev. Al and the NAACP were calling for his permanent dismissal and he didn't kill anything; he just said something a lot of people didn't like. Yet, in the NAACP's view, Vick should only be suspended for a season while Imus needed to be fired permanently.
Oh, another argument they had was something to the effect of "while lots of NFL fans are animal lovers, others just want to see Vick play". Umm... holy crap! Whether you're an animal lover or not, I think anyone in civilized culture would agree that it takes a real psychopath to breed dogs to rip each other apart and then kill them by torture when they loose.
It's not so much that these activist groups exist that bothers me; it's the ridiculous double-standards they try to pass as moral arguments that makes me want to pull my hair out.