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senseandsensibility

(24,973 posts) Fri Aug 23, 2013, 12:24 AM Aug 2013

The senseless violence is making me cry. [View all]

I've shed many tears over Trayvon Martin, and started a thread about it asking DUers to check in if they were white and thought Zimmerman should have been convicted. I put it that way because the media was portraying it as if only blacks cared or disagreed with the verdict. I am proud to say that it received over 400 recs, but did nothing to make anyone feel better.

Now I am in tears about the Australian jogger who was shot for no reason. Today I read about the WWII vet who was beaten to death for no reason. Senseless, horrific violence.

There is something wrong with our culture, and it is getting to me tonight. I'm usually not this emotional, but I may have just reached a tipping point of sorts.

Anyone else?

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The senseless violence is making me cry. [View all] senseandsensibility Aug 2013 OP

Also, posted a few times today, a transgender woman in Harlem. NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #1

The desire to hurt someone perceived as weaker or different than you senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #2

Same here LittleBlue Aug 2013 #6

I have a strange belief I suppose. mick063 Aug 2013 #3

It's not such a strange belief though it is complicated. defacto7 Aug 2013 #4

That is an insightful post LittleBlue Aug 2013 #7

Yet all these took place in small town America. Republican ones at that. ErikJ Aug 2013 #12

100 times the population density of America might be a bit of a stretch Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #17

If capitalism wasn't wasting rainy Aug 2013 #13

I am with you. defacto7 Aug 2013 #5

Thank you for understanding (or trying to) my horror senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #11

I see it as signs of the breaking point, social stress fractures. Half-Century Man Aug 2013 #8

gratuitious Chrisitianity bbashing. how sweet. cali Aug 2013 #14

It is heartbreaking. RudynJack Aug 2013 #9

I know that every human is capable of great autrocities and of wonderful deeds. Lobo27 Aug 2013 #10

perhaps but the degree to which that's true varies hugely cali Aug 2013 #15

to me, it is the age-old issue of sociopathy/psychopathy steve2470 Aug 2013 #16

Happy Birthday! senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #18

thanks ! nt steve2470 Aug 2013 #20

You should have been around a couple decades ago... snooper2 Aug 2013 #19