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Well, I was wondering when Muir was going to comment on the shootings..
And what rationalization he was going to use, and I'll be honest, he surprised me here, because he didn't use any. Just straight up celebrating the deaths of innocents, including women and children.
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ReplyDeleteThis was the moment a final line was crossed.
Reading that shocked me. Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did. This is horrifying.
To the extent that any of this was still funny in any way, that's over. This isn't funny anymore. This just became deadly serious.
There has never been a starker truism than "the banality of evil." Muir and his readers do not believe themselves to be monsters. They are blind to what they have become. Nothing underscores this more than the line "I see my dad." Meaning that Zed, a white man, is himself, an individual, not connected to the Christchurch shooter or culpable for his actions. But the occupants of those mosques are not individuals, and they ARE culpable.
The readers list link after link after link to horrific murders and assaults committed by Muslim migrants in Europe, highlighting the genuine problems that come with the migration crisis, in order to underscore just HOW culpable every member of this religion is.
But WHITE men are all individuals with fully independent autonomy, and no shared culpability or proclivities of any kind.
(Oh, except, of course, for their universally shared and exclusively maintained propensity to "uphold western values," which not even white women share with them. Too busy being "herd creatures" who "demanded" to be raped and killed by "invaders.")
I don't even know what can be said anymore. Until this moment, I had some measure of respect for Muir as a voice of extreme outsider art, however toxic and disgusting I found his message. That just stopped cold.
This is horrifying misanthropic bloodlust from a man who has made it very clear he is exactly the personality profile that would enable another Holocaust.
I'd only just started but I don't even have the stomach to satirize the strip anymore. Not after this. It's like playing inside the mind of a monster, a place I have no desire to be.
Muir has backed equally horrific things in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. This is the last tattered remnants of the mask falling off, as they've been doing for this whole miserable presidency. So, yes, I will keep on keeping on.
DeleteWith that said, I quite understand your feelings, and have felt something similar on quite a few occasions over the years. But damn it, I'm too stubborn to quit.