David Sirota says conservatives shouldn’t show sympathy for Boston victims
http://twitter.com/#!/davidsirota/status/325030164947939328
Salon’s David Sirota climbed out from under his rock again tonight, this time to berate conservatives for showing sympathy for the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Seriously.
Apparently, Sirota lacks the emotional intelligence to comprehend that people can disagree without wanting each other slaughtered by terrorists. Hence, conservatives should not care about those injured or killed in Boston. Normally this line of reasoning would be shocking — but then again this is a guy tasteless enough to publicly wish that the Boston bomber come from a certain ethnicity.
So let me ask conservatives: Do you hate Massachusetts and Boston as you claim so often? Or do you now care about Massachusetts and Boston?
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 18, 2013
Yes, a lot of conservatives disagree with the way Massachusetts governs itself, and sometimes we even mock their elected officials, but how that translates into wishing death on people is beyond us. Following that logic, Sirota should be absolutely giddy about the deadly explosions in Texas, but we doubt that he is.
Based only on looking at my Twitter feed, it seems there are many very proudly racist people from AZ, TN & GA in particular #NotSurprising
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 18, 2013
Oh yeah, TX and FL not far behind.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 18, 2013
Here’s his most priceless line:
@mtgrove For starters, the entire ’88 prez campaign. Also parts of the 2004 campaign: cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITI… and google “taxachusetts”
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 18, 2013
Does this man not realize that the GOP presidential candidate in the most recent election was a former Governor of Massachusetts? What about the Scott Brown Senate campaign? Remember that?
Oh, and we almost forgot that the term “Tea Party” is derived from an anti-tax protest in … you guessed it … colonial Massachusetts.
Unreal : @davidsirota projecting. He’s confused as to how conservatives can oppose liberal policy and yet show concern for people.
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) April 18, 2013
@davidsirota The people of Massachusetts are our fellow country men despite political differences #ASSHAT . WTF is wrong with you?
— Betty Draper (@ftbettydraper) April 19, 2013
@davidsirota Well Sir, I may disagree with you on politics and I believe that we are all human and actually have sympathy for my fellow man.
— Tony (@hm3usn99) April 19, 2013
@davidsirota Do you hate Texas as you claim so often? Or do you now care about Texas? See, it’s fun to play that game
— KBDaBear (@kbdabear) April 19, 2013
@davidsirota cc @slate I’m progressive & share ur political views but ur continually condescending/rude. No wonder people hate u! #unfollow
— TheyMightBeGiants (@BelieveInZito) April 19, 2013
We’re not sure what’s rattling around in Sirota’s mind, but thank goodness there are good people on Twitter to prove him wrong.
