So he got beat with a belt as a child, then grew up to become … well, Sean Hannity? That really tells you all you need to know.
I actually know people who endure waterboarding for “fun.” It’s pretty brutal, even among the heavy bdsm players. (I can’t even watch it. Luckily most of those that do it know this is a common reaction and take steps to make sure it’s in ‘restricted’ areas.) Like so many other activities, even fairly innocuous ones, there’s a huge difference between doing something to which you consented (and if you call “red” it will stop) and these exact same things in a non-consensual context. So really, even his in sincere offer to willingly undergo it wouldn’t be sufficient.
I suggest if Mr. Hannity really wants to prove this isn’t torture that he evaluate such a process in the exact same way that it’s used on POWs. That’s the only real test, now isn’t it?
I still wouldn’t watch the process, even on a slimeball like that. I would, however, love to see the interview afterwards.
“So Sean – exactly how much did you agree to donate to this liberal cause in order to get the waterboarding to stop? We have your checkbook right here. Want to make out the check now or do we fill up the bucket again?”
Yeah, I know. As a victim of some pretty serious abuse, I actually feel sympathy for … well, the kid that he was, if not for Sean Hannity as the person he is now. I’ll never understand how some people can go through things like that and end up at “… and I came out fine …” instead of " … and no one else should have to endure that."
Of course, it comes to mind…not beaten hard enough or often enough? That’s the thinking I have after a childhood of beatings with a club…by my dad. No, I didn’t deserve it.
What an asshole.
His point is essentially, “when I was a vulnerable child, my protector hit me with a belt and punched me in the face so (quite the leap here) modern professional adults should just shut up and accept being treated with aggressive incivility by their co-workers in the workplace.”
Yup, and as a victim of it myself, I think it can also set up the abusive and obviously unfair and hurtful parent(s) as authority figures to rebel against. Hiding bad things from my parents, and getting away with that, felt justified.
His childhood’s permanent, beating-induced, blinkered, vicious uncaring nature is preventing him from recognizing that his said nature may stem from the beatings.
For sure.
I just like pointing out his demented “connections.”
And you never see it go the other way from these guys. Like, “I was able to attend state university when it was X% subsidized, because it was affordable. Everyone should be okay with that.” Or, “I survived polio bc of socialized medical care, so should everyone else be able to survive!”
Fuck you zhsnnity. Fuck. You. O say this with all the hatred my heart fan muster, given that just one of the beatings I endured as a child was on my excema-ridden legs, inflicted by my father with his army belt buckle at the start of six week long summer holidays and the cuts and bruises were still there when we went back to school. I was in primary school and I’ve no fucking idea what I could’ve done to “deserve” that. Nor does any child. Excuse any typos please as I’m incoherent with rage. And that’s enough internet for me today.
