The power of rewriting the narrative

[trinityvixen]

I forget where I read it, but, once upon a time, a man was so hurt and pissed off about his best friend being murdered by a glory-seeking loser, that he resolved never to utter the man's name, the better for everyone, himself included, to forget the man. What better way to deny the murderer exactly what he wanted than to leave him out of history? The man who came up with this brilliant idea: Paul McCartney.

Granted, Paul McCartney had then and has now more power than I or anyone I know will (most likely) ever have. But the internet is the great equalizer in a lot of ways. Enough people get together, they can start a meme, and those little buggers are shit-hard to get rid of. And it's about goddamned time they worked for us instead of against us (and our collective grammar/spelling skills).

So let's start one, right now. Last week, Vernon Hunter, a Vietnam veteran, was killed by a domestic terrorist because he happened to work for the IRS. That's what happened. Spread the word. Rewrite the narrative so this is about a terrorist killing an innocent American. This isn't about the terrorist's frustrations. We don't sympathize with terrorists. We sympathize with victims' families. So let's remember the innocent American who was killed. Let's remember Vernon Hunter, not the man who killed him.

Comments

[shell524.livejournal.com]

A-freaking-men! It pisses me off SO MUCH when people make stuff like this about the poor overwrought crazy son of a bitch who blew up a bunch of innocent people who work for the government.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's really fucking awful, too, that in the one-and-a-little year Obama has been president/president-elect, there have been two kooky conservative freaks who've gone on to attack public institutions only to kill one person, and both times, it was a black man who had, literally, NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT PERSON BEING A PSYCHOTIC FUCKHOLE.

You have grievances, people will hear you. You take lives to make your grievances known, and we will forget you. On purpose. Bastards.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Agree with you on the basic point, but a guy whose diatribe includes slams on GWB, attacks on government for not passing national health care, and approvingly quotes communist doctrine is not a "conservative" kooky freak. You want the guy to be forgotten and don't want to argue about his politics, then don't try to score political points off him.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Let's just not go there. You're making more of a thing of it by pointing out my slip than my slip would on its own. Let's leave it. That's the idea.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Agreed.