27/01/2010
Dear People Who Object to the Coverage Haiti Gets, Or to the Aid Haiti Is Being Given:
You’re clearly alienated by this outpouring of support. You find it unsettling that you’re so alone in not caring. You’re irritated by the apparent possibility that, as far as humans go, you might have a below-average capacity for kindness, for empathic concern. Which is fine! But if you can’t be bothered to care, don’t project that indifference onto other people simply because you don’t possess the kind of imagination that would allow you to consider that someone else actually might. That some athletes, some people, rather than thinking about how good they’ll look for having donated, will simply be acting on the recognition that the dying, orphaned and homeless need those ten bucks, or that thousand, more than they do.
„Commenter Eureka Street on Deadspin, gently giving more thought and consideration to Paul Shirley’s header-off-the-Eads-Bridge column about Haiti than it deserves. That “could some of you maybe use a condom once in a while?” line is a career-killer. (via leitch)
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