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This Week in Moron History (or Why DFW is the Worst Airport in Texas)
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This Week in Moron History (or Why DFW is the Worst Airport in Texas) Yesterday, a man impatiently waiting for his luggage at DFW, decided enough was enough. He verbally and then physically attacked a fellow traveler. What started with verbal insults, a slew of homophobic comments regarding the other traveler who was wearing a pink shirt (During breast cancer awareness month? The humanity!). When, apparently, the homophobic comments did not solicit the response desired, the man kicked the man in pink in the groin and then punched him. Witnesses to the phased attack chose this moment to step in and subdue the attacker. People are stupid, this few will argue. We sometimes have brilliant moments and even a cure for polio, but mostly we dwell in the filth, muck and mire of existence. The fight over whether a certain action figure should be sold at Toys R Us because it has mature content (not, I might add, a vibrator, for those wondering) and whether a bag of meth is more destructive socially than the body image issues brought about in little girls by Barbie (is there a side to choose on that one?) is just an example. Buy the action figure on Amazon and save money over what you could have paid at Toys R Us like most people do. Amazon doesn't have any qualms about making a buck over reality in sales, whether Toys R Us will bend to avoid controversy or not. But the way this was addressed online was perhaps most perplexing of all. This was a hate crime. The man wearing the pink shirt may or may not have been homosexual, but the man attacking him attacked him under that guise. Initiating by slinging homophobic slurs and escalating to the physical attack, it was a hate crime. A hate crime in an airport. It could easily fall under federal jurisdiction as a result. The article called the hate criminal (would that be what you would call someone who committed a hate crime? Possible...) a homophobic bully. Could you denigrate the physical assault of another human being more? Bullying in school can get physical but, outside of school, we call that assault. Focused on a target group (real or imagined) makes it a hate crime. And the author of the article (certainly not from AP, but well within the yahoo parameters) went on to say that equally disturbing to the HATE CRIME ( my words, not his, as he believes it is bullying...) was that the man might not be gay after all. EQUALLY DISTURBING??? How is this even remotely possible? It might be the attacker's out for prosecution for a hate crime (“But, Your Honor, the assault victim wasn't actually gay,”) but to put it on par with the random act of hatred is ludicrous at best. It is insulting, in reality, to any recipient of such an attack. If the man had attacked another man at a football game, believing the other man to be a supporter of the other team, perhaps that would come to the level of equally disturbing. I'd still worry that a violent attack was lessened by saying that the reason he attacked the man might not have been true. The attacker was drunk. Perhaps a drug and alcohol treatment plan is in his future. Lobotomies aren't authorized anymore. |
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