My definition of "Morally Reprehensible"

I try to reserve the use of the term "morally reprehensible" for only special occasions where someone's behavior is so vile and shameful that it justifies such an expression. If I use to too often, it loses its impact. 

So today, I am taking it out of the closet, dusting it off and preparing it for proper allocation. Social media has exploded over the past couple days in response to the horrific tragedy in Charleston earlier this week. And once again, one side of the political spectrum wastes no time in attempting to extract the blame from the actual perpetrator and reassign it to an entire population of people they have grown to despise. Bush, the NRA, Christians, Conservatives and even the inanimate guns themselves. NOT the angry, crazy, stupid, racist (or any combination thereof) beast that actually pulled the trigger, ending nine perfectly innocent and beautiful lives. 

I blame the shooter. Anyone care to join me in that camp?

I have yet to understand the motivation behind something like this. In recent news, one side of the aisle actually attempted to blame the other for the tragic train crash in Philadelphia. Do some people have no shame? 

They did it with Oklahoma City. They did it with 9/11. They did it with Columbine and Sandy Hook. They did it with Philadelphia as I just mentioned, they did it with the bridge collapse in Minneapolis and they even did it with a hurricane. They've now done it with this. Some people have literally no shame. 

I can only assume that there are a small but radical subset of our society that sits with baited breath watching for a tragedy to unfold on the news and then pounce on the opportunity to blame all Conservatives, the people they've grown to despise and hold accountable for every woe in his/her imperfect little life or that big world that's apparently out to get them.

I think they often forget that when they post their anger-driven monologues on social media, blaming their usual whipping boys, they fail to remember how many friends and family in their OWN lives that they are insulting.  And yes, they may try and pull the classic rebuttal;  "Well, I wasn't talking about YOU specifically, just the other ones". That is a pathetic as a white person that saying he doesn't like Black people except for all of the ones he actually knows and is friends with - they're OK. 

Are you really that stupid? Don't answer that.

It is beyond stupid, beyond shameful, it is in fact morally reprehensible to use the deaths of the innocent to pimp your own bigoted agenda and then walk around smugly with a degree of pride in that you did your obligatory duty to try and demonize an entire group or people based on the actions of one person that in most cases, has no affiliation with them whatsoever  I wasn't always an ace in English but I'm pretty sure the applicable term to describe this behavior is called "bigotry". 

Yes, "bigotry"

Just like Dylan Roof is a bigot. Only you haven't opened fire on anyone for it. I'll give you at least a shred of credit for exercising restraint.

In recent years, due to the undeserved leadership statuses of our uneducated and clueless pop culture icons, it has been deemed "socially acceptable" to be a bigot against Conservatives and/or Christians and to use isolated acts of violence committed by one person as an excuse to persecute an entire group, none of which have a thing to do with it. 

They call us racists, they call us homophobes, they call us sexists, etc. They can never seem to produce a tangible and legitimate example. Rather they just "say" we are that way and that is apparently validation enough for them.

And my obvious question for them that I find myself asking often is "I'm a Conservative Christian, at least lightly so. Is that what you really think of me?" 

If so, I'm not really sure why you are reading my post. You should have unfriended me a while ago if in your eyes I am that despicable of a person. That is if you really DO believe what you say. Perhaps the reason we ARE still friends is that you really don't believe that. The ones you have grown to hate are nothing more than the Boogie-Man. So like William F Buckley said, "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you believe what you just said."

And sadly, the moment Dylan Roof was taken into custody, the social media reaction to the shooting hit its climax, triggering the latest wave of stupidity flooding the news feeds with pathetic attempts to use the tragic deaths of the victims in order to pimp his/her own biased agenda. 

I'm going to put this one way, one time; When you resist arrest, whether for an unpaid parking ticket or for shooting someone, the police will take you down and with deadly force if needed. If you give yourself up peacefully, whether for an unpaid parking ticket or for shooting someone, they will detain you without incident. For those of you with the despicable gaul to try and compare the Charleston shooter's arrest with unrelated incidents in recent weeks where someone either ran or resisted arrest, as an excuse to take another uncalled-for jab at all cops in trying to tag them as "racists", especially when the REAL racist we are dealing with right now just shot 9 innocent people dead in church a couple days ago, what you are doing is morally reprehensible and pretty much just stupid. REALLY stupid.

In closing, I have a theory where I believe that white people who sprint to the front of the line to call other white people racists the moment something terrible like this happens, they are actually hiding something. After all, the best defense is a good offense, right?