Sharon Stone Needs to Get Some Class
The other day, actress/activist Sharon Stone made a remark that the recent earthquake and aftershocks in China were the result of “bad Karma” for the occupation of Tibet. I haven’t seen the response to this yet, but it ought to be indignant. Not only is this in extremely poor taste, it’s insulting to the thousands of victims both dead and displaced who have suffered tremendously in the aftermath of this disaster. Sharon, shame on you.
I’m sick of this kind of opportunistic bullshit where people exploit the tragedies of others to further some political cause. They’d benefit by spreading their message using something relevant to their cause, rather than trying to cash in on someone’s tragedy, especially when there’s no feasible correlation between what’s being compared.
You right-wingers ought to take a hint from this. When one of our people says or does something stupid, we say something about it. The next time one your nutbag buddies says something like “Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gays,” “the holocaust was Hitler doing God’s work,” “9/11 was God’s punishment for America’s sins,” equate diplomacy with appeasement, use tragedies like the NIU shooting to promote their views against conceal/carry laws or to trump up their case against violent video games, laughably and quite inaccurately stating that America was founded to eradicate Islam… fucking call them out on it! Stop defending this lunatic opportunism and start holding people accountable for making idiotic statements, even if they vote for the same party you do. Remember accountability? That thing you say the left goes without? Give it a spin try sometime–you might rediscover your dignity.