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Sorry - didn't mean to offend your sensibilities. Perhaps I meant: it's difficult to have pity for those who are willfully ignorant. I simply used "stupid" in reference to Snoop having "pity" for the dumbass girl in the video, burning Swiftie albums and such - the "stupid" girl made a "stupid" video... a REALLY stupid video. And, unlike Snoop to whom I was responding (not you), I have absolutely NO PITY for that girl and her stupid video. I meant "stupid" as in "given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner." (Merriam-Webster).Disagree. I find stupidity imminently pitiable, and often worthy of sympathy and/or empathy (I've certainly acted stupid as hell, many times).
More often than not, folks clearly working with strained and paltry neural connections didn't come about the state volitionally. It's often painful to observe the results of their circumstances, and really fucking sucks when those results impact the greater "we", but I find my ire is reserved for the machiavellian anti-social behavior that dominates the funders and apparatchiks of the right.
Ricky and Stephanie of rural Chatham, whose milieu was, from birth, and is today aggrieved, rural, white, in a Fox-flooded dying hamlet littered with industrial waste are the folks I find most pitiable. They're the target of the grift EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. and are kept in an unending state of anger/fight/flight.
I find it hard to have pity for such stupidity. Get it?