The charred body of Jesse Washington; whites from Waco, not ISIS, burned him alive - By Bill Moyers

[Nuclear Unicorn]

154. "smear that Moyers' intent was to minimize the death of the Jordanian pilot"

No.

Moyers is trying to minimize the calls to deal decisively with ISIS. This phony little lecture serves no practical purpose.

I bet there were lots of people that condoned it. The ones that perpetrated it are not the only sick racists in this nation.

There are sick racists/bigots/homophobes/ideologues/just-plain-rotten-bastards in every place at every time.

The question is: What to do about them?

Is he out to lecture the racists? I'll suggest that might just be an exercise in futility because the racists already know who they are and what they feel and they have already concluded they are better than everyone else. They cannot be reasoned out of their barbarity.

Is Moyers' proposal to sit there and lecture those who already find bigotry and murder to be morally reprehensible?

"That thing you already condemn as morally reprehensible is bad and don't you forget it!!!1!1!!"

Gee, thanks.

I can only imagine Moyers having been around a hundred years ago. The news comes in that a young black man has been kidnapped, tortured and burned alive by racists. Moyers response? A worthless article noting that a hundred years earlier another person was burned alive by another group with the same subset of moral failings and because of that those calling for the killers of Jesse Washington to be brought to justice would do well to remember racism was alive and well in 1817 and as such who are we (meaning, "not me&quot to lecture people in 1916 about the evils of burning people alive.

Such an exercise would be stupid and pointless -- just like this modern effort.