Originally Posted by
Logen Ninefingers
Well you’ve hit the nail on the head: if you are National voter who happens to believe - as is your right - in ‘personal responsibility’ (which the Left have somehow managed to term into a loaded term), then the subtext is that its actually you that let this gunman down. Because you live and work in the current system, obey the law, look after your family…your are ‘privileged’, ‘selfish’, ‘wealthy’ etc etc etc. You should get with the programme and get ‘progressive’ - or you’ll be demonised!
Hey, but what if you have a job, obey the system, look after your family…but your parents died in a car accident when you were 3? What if your mum killed herself when you were 15? What if you are neurodiverse? What if you suffer from chronic back pain? Because you have crosses to bear, crosses you may bear alone and in silence, shouldn’t you be a desperate criminal?
What if you are battling depression and anxiety, but still manage to get out of bed on time, have a shower, get dressed, have breakfast, get to work after battling through rush hour traffic, put in an 8 hour day at a desk, and do that 5 days a week for decades…shouldn’t you be ‘angry at the system’? Perhaps a ‘desperate criminal’? Or are you ‘privileged’, ‘selfish’, ‘wealthy’ ‘a silver spooner’?
What is you are battling cancer, are still going to work, are still looking after your family (paying bills, putting food on the table). Are you really some sort of selfish privileged mongrel?
It seems society was giving Matiu Reid every chance and more. He choked his partner half to death, and society ‘punished’ him by letting him get a job and earn money. How ‘tough’! How ‘cruel’!