quick thought... June 23rd, 2006 - 12:10PM
Dr. Mary Johnson: …”I realize that I am a middle-class, Caucasian, Christian, educated, articulate female and that might not qualify me for sympathy in Ed’s eyes (as he made very clear earlier he thinks I should be able to take it for those very reasons), but figuratively speaking I’m not that much different from the residents of Morningside or the innocent bystanders who got caught in the crossfire of warring ideological interests. Figuratively speaking, I’m another mortally-wounded public service doctor who has been lying on the sidewalk for eight years.”…
Tags: Dr. Mary Johnson, Greensboro Massacre, insane, self aggrandizement.
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Huh? How anyone that is for one… a doctor…. can even begin to say they’re the same as those at Morningside is beyond me.
it’s amazing how she continues to give my perpective more and more credibility.
maybe if she got down off her cross for a few minutes (because this entire conversation is about her and her loss), she’d realize that she’s much more priviledged than the average morningside resident circa 1979.
her “figurative” associations to murdered CWP members and a terrorized neighborhood are a crass reflection of the prevailing attitude in this community.
and another thing… this conversation can’t be centered on “sympathy.” it’s all about “empathy.” there’s a huge difference between the two, especially within this particular conversation.
heh. she’s probably more privileged than most Smith Homes residents circa 2006. :p
I realize her comparison of herself to a dead person left on the sidewalk for eight years is truly alarming, but what the hell is this:
“I am a middleclass, Caucasion, Christian, educated, articulate female and that might not qualify me for sympathy in Ed’s eyes (as he made very clear earlier he thinks I should be able to take it for those very reasons)”
Very clear to her, I guess, although less so to me, and I’m the one who is alleged to think it.
ed, she’s a mess on wheels. she twists your rational interjections to fit her sanctimonious rants, pure and simple.
the degree of patience you show in responding to her off-topic comments and on-topic stupidity is astounding. i hope you realize that myself and others greatly appreciate it when you politely cut through the religious diatribes on wordup and re-establish that american lives aren’t filtered through a religous worldview, rather the freedom of thought that a constitutional republic provides.