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[agilebrit]

Yeah, I'm going to rant. And I'm going to say some insensitive things about a dude who committed suicide

Okay, so Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher committed suicide yesterday in front of his coaches and teammates. This is horrible for them and my heart goes out to them.

And they did a little piece about that at halftime on CBS today. Which, okay, again, dude was a football player and his loss hit his team hard. Especially a loss like that.

What I am not okay with is the way they treated Kasandra Perkins, the woman he murdered before he killed himself, as some kind of fucking afterthought. "Oh, and it's also really tragic because a young woman also lost her life." They couldn't even be bothered to use her name.

No, assholes. She didn't "lose her life" like you lose a set of fucking car keys. He shot her several times before he did the state a favor and turned the gun on himself. But apparently murdering the mother of his child wasn't enough for this selfish sonofabitch, he had to go down to Arrowhead Stadium and kill himself in front of his coaches and teammates.

Clearly the dude had problems. And I'd have a hell of a lot more sympathy for him if he hadn't, you know, murdered Kasandra before he offed himself. But I'm not going to apologize for the fact that he gets no sympathy from me. I'll save my sympathy for his coaches, his teammates, his family, and his little girl.

And, hey, NFL commentators? How about mentioning her name next time you bring this up?

Comments

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's horrible. I heard about the case, but I hadn't heard they were being so grossly unfair to her.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was staring in horror at my screen saying, man, she didn't "lose her life," he took it, wtf, you can't be serious. I'm probably going to take some heat for calling Belcher some nasty names, but damn, he murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself if front of people after going specifically to see them and apparently driving his car through a fence to get into the facility.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Couldn't agree with you more! This SOB murdered his girlfriend in cold blood, then traumatized other people he supposedly cared about. No love whatsoever.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me. I mean, if you have the presence of mind to run to Arrowhead Stadium to thank your coaches, if you're that damn grateful to them, at least have the decency not to kill yourself in front of them, you know? Good Lord.

[neverfading.livejournal.com]

Leftist media doesn't like to assign blame or admit that people are actually *resposible* for their actions and choices, so they often use passive language like "random act of violence", "unavoidable tragedy", "loss of life", et cetera.

It takes the focus off the perpetrator and treats crime as morally neutral, the same as if the victims had been killed by a fire or a flood or a tsunami, not a human with agency and awareness.

It's all part of the Left's belief that objective truth and good-versus-evil don't actually exist. Nobody's ever wrong, nobody's ever to blame, everything is morally neutral.

But when a white person or someone who's not in favor with the system of political correctness commits a crime, the Leftist media comes at them like a pitbull.

Evil doesn't exist, just "fate" or "bad luck" or "random violence." That's Leftism, for ya.

And the Left, who claim to be the champions of the downtrodden and oppressed, ALWAYS side with criminals rather than victims. In this scenario, I'd say that their desire to not place any blame on a black man has trumped any sense of compassion for a black woman.

Newspaper articles often frame crimes in terms of "Person X lost her life due to a random tragedy", not "The guilty party willfully murdered Victim X."

This is especially true when the perpetrator is non-white or a member of another politically-favored group.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

He shot her nine times. I'm pretty sure he meant to kill her.

And of course now they're all coming out of the woodwork bleating "culture of gun violence, blah blah baa" like good little sheep. Because a friggin' linebacker couldn't kill a woman with his bare hands or anything, right? Bob Costas, I am disappoint. I am not surprised, but I am disappoint. Why in the world did you have to go out of your way to quote the stupid parts of that article?

The whole thing is just gross.

[neverfading.livejournal.com]

[neverfading.livejournal.com]

BTW, I'm curious about your username: are you actually a Brit? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning?

[gorengal.livejournal.com]

Agreed 100%.

At least the Chiefs organization knew better than to honor him before the game. As I heard it, before the game they requested a moment of silence for victims of domestic abuse, and apparently discouraged players from wearing a sticker with JB's number on their uniforms. I think they did the right thing. CBS, on the other hand...idiotic.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

That's something anyway. I wanted to punch CBS and NBC through my TV screen tonight.