Look. Can we agree that something I find distasteful you might be ok with? You might not like olives, but I do. So my original premise was that I thought something was distasteful.
Since then, I will admit that for the most part, I’ve been trying to defend myself from a dogpile for an off-hand comment I made. I frankly really couldn’t care less about the political parties in England. Both sides can go fuck themselves as far as I’m concerned, and frankly, any person with political power, liberal or conservative, allowing a 20+ storey building to have inadequate smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, and fire escapes is criminal. Why Labour stopped fighting just because the tenant safety law was voted down is as good a question as any at this point.
As for why I think that using a tragedy to make political points is wrong is because it tends to dehumanize the victims and turns their pain and loss into a chess piece on a game board. Is there a decent amount of time to wait before pointing fingers at your political opponents for the blame of a tragedy? I don’t know. As I said earlier, I think you should at least wait until the fire has been put out, and the victims cared for before shouting accusations. Clearly, it’s obvious that I’m in the minority in that opinion.
But I’m done. You guys all won the internet today. Hooray for you.
