ChampagneDream posted... Been a wild read, boys and girls. One thing here - saying it's not right to celebrate the death of literally anyone is stupid. There are deaths we can universally celebrate. One is a guy who committed the genocide of millions people right around WW2, commanded the Third Reich, and his name rhymes with Bradolf Pitler.
There's also this scary guy from late 19th century London who had an alias similar to Mack the Stripper.
Cal-Barcarwee
Joey the Stallion
Vlad the bad ruler of Romania
Not like Rush is as bad as these guys - regressive/hateful propaganda pales in comparison to rape, murder, genocide, pedophilia, political cruelty, and whatever else. To say we can't celebrate any death whatsoever though is just dumb.
If you don't like people celebrating Rush's death, tough. The party of "fuck your feelings" can consider its feelings fucked.
I think the problem with that argument is that we all know it's bullshit. Rush wasn't a good dude. He said some vile things in his day. However, the people celebrating aren't celebrating because Rush was a scumbag. They are celebrating because he's not on thier side. If Ben Shapiro died, there'd be tons of celebrating as well and he's not 1/4th as bad as Rush. And lets not forget the celebrating that happened when Peterson got ill and his views are even more tame then Shapiro's. Fuck, I remember when Total Biscuit died from cancer and all the progressive nuts on Twitter were jerking off to that news and TB wasn't even conservative at all(he was just a bit involved in Gamergate). The reality is, this isn't about Rush, it is about the deranged mindset that had taken hold in American politics where people get gleefully excited at the death of any big figure on the opposing side.