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One of these days one of these little shits are going to flip out and try to inflict violence upon one of us "un-American" liberals and I always seem to be 500 miles away from any shit these guys kick off.
They always seem to pick on unarmed helpless people and not the explosive powder kegs who are just waiting for the shit to hit the fan.
I'd love for some jackass to try to kidnap me off to Iraq because I said I hope Chris Kyle is burning in hell. One of you fuckers on here should try. You people think I'm a scared little midget, shit man, it should be easy to kidnap me. Why doesn't some right wing mother fucker make good on that wussy midget bullshit and actually try? I've been saying out loud for a month why nobody should see that movie. I've been saying out loud how glad I am that someone shot him dead. Best damned use of a bullet in the last 25 years. Eddie Ray Routh, a real American hero who took the garbagest of human garbage out of the human gene pool.
Go fuck yourselves, Conservatives. Try and make good on those rape and kidnapping threats. Not all of us liberals are unarmed.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...d-killer-why-patriots-calling-hero-chris-kyle
They always seem to pick on unarmed helpless people and not the explosive powder kegs who are just waiting for the shit to hit the fan.
I'd love for some jackass to try to kidnap me off to Iraq because I said I hope Chris Kyle is burning in hell. One of you fuckers on here should try. You people think I'm a scared little midget, shit man, it should be easy to kidnap me. Why doesn't some right wing mother fucker make good on that wussy midget bullshit and actually try? I've been saying out loud for a month why nobody should see that movie. I've been saying out loud how glad I am that someone shot him dead. Best damned use of a bullet in the last 25 years. Eddie Ray Routh, a real American hero who took the garbagest of human garbage out of the human gene pool.
Go fuck yourselves, Conservatives. Try and make good on those rape and kidnapping threats. Not all of us liberals are unarmed.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...d-killer-why-patriots-calling-hero-chris-kyle
I have to confess: I was suckered by the trailer for American Sniper. It’s a masterpiece of short-form tension – a confluence of sound and image so viscerally evocative it feels almost domineering. You cannot resist. You will be stressed out. You will feel. Or, as I believe I put it in a blog about the trailer, “Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper trailer will ruin your pants.”
But however effective it is as a piece of cinema, even a cursory look into the film’s backstory – and particularly the public reaction to its release – raises disturbing questions about which stories we choose to codify into truth, and whose, and why, and the messy social costs of transmogrifying real life into entertainment.
Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.
Likewise, much of the US right wing appears to have seized upon American Sniper with similarly shallow comprehension – treating it with the same unconsidered, rah-rah reverence that they would the national anthem or the flag itself. Only a few weeks into its release, the film has been flattened into a symbol to serve the interests of an ideology that, arguably, runs counter to the ethos of the film itself. How much, if at all, should Eastwood concern himself with fans who misunderstand and misuse his work? If he, intentionally or not, makes a hero out of Kyle – who, bare minimum, was a racist who took pleasure in dehumanising and killing brown people – is he responsible for validating racism, murder, and dehumanisation? Is he a propagandist if people use his work as propaganda?
That question came to the fore last week on Twitter when several liberal journalists drew attention to Kyle’s less Oscar-worthy statements. “Chris Kyle boasted of looting the apartments of Iraqi families in Fallujah,” wrote author and former Daily Beast writer Max Blumenthal. “Kill every male you see,” Rania Khalek quoted, calling Kyle an “American psycho”.
Retaliation from the rightwing twittersphere was swift and violent, as Khalek documented in an exhaustive (and exhausting) post at Alternet. “Move your America hating ass to Iraq, let ISIS rape you then cut your cunt head off, fucking media whore muslim,” wrote a rather unassuming-looking mom named Donna. “Rania, maybe we to take you ass overthere and give it to ISIS … Dumb bitch,” offered a bearded man named Ronald, who enjoys either bass fishing or playing the bass (we may never know). “Waterboarding is far from torture,” explained an army pilot named Benjamin, all helpfulness. “I wouldn’t mind giving you two a demonstration.”
The patriots go on, and on and on. They cannot believe what they are reading. They are rushing to the defence of not just Kyle, but their country, what their country means. They call for the rape or death of anyone ungrateful enough to criticise American hero Chris Kyle. Because Chris Kyle is good, and brown people are bad, and America is in danger, and Chris Kyle saved us. The attitude echoes what Miller articulated about Kyle in her Salon piece: “his steadfast imperviousness to any nuance, subtlety or ambiguity, and his lack of imagination and curiosity, seem particularly notable”.