It is so helpful when those who decry hatred and division find great humor in being hateful, mocking, and divisive.
Raw Story revels in such strategies (e.g., Jon Stewart roasts Southerners...). But other than getting some good yucks, how exactly does this forward the cause of getting beyond the divide we suffer in this country, how does it bridge racial and partisan enmity? It doesn't. Those who say we need a open and honest discussion of such differences, really don't think that at all. They use that as a vehicle to ridicule and try to delegitimize those who disagree.
I don't care about Southerners, don't care about flags. But the whining and crying about how people treat each other, followed by intolerance and treating people like idiots is simply disingenuous and galling - and it does little except increase division and distrust - and hostility. As I have noted before, Jon Stewart was once a voice of reason, an equal opportunity critic, who has now become a partisan accomplice.
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