What an interesting article.
It highlights all the ways that this man caused IMMENSE pain to others with his assholish bigotry, and then whines, “and he was crushed when people didnt let him do that without complaint!”
It notes how he tweeted (paraphrased from
https://twitter.com/MikeSAdams/status/1266506726351802370?s=20 ), “I went out without a mask and it felt like I wasn’t in a slave state for a minute, Massa Cooper let my people free,” and then got all butt hurt when people called him an asshole bigot. “Don’t they know this hurt his feelings?”
This guy, the author, the best friend in the world of the man who died (looks like it was a suicide but they very carefully Christianically don’t
sayy that, “sshhh!”) lets us know all the hateful and hurtful and harmful behvaiors of this “warrior” and exclaims how he had a RIGHT!!!! To say all these things, but Oh.My.God! People were so dang mean to him! “Don’t read the comments! They are awful!” As if this guy’s comments
weren’t?
The privilege and entitlement are so thick you could choke on them. This sounds like the demise of a guy who could dish it out but couldn’t take it.
Throughout the long course of the litigation, Mike had been the very definition of the “happy warrior.” He seemed to relish the challenge. He seemed to thrive in the face of negative attacks.
But on day two, I saw the truth. Mike was a man in pain.
It came out during cross-examination. When I prepped Mike, I thought my task would be to hold him back, to make sure that he wasn’t too aggressive and too eager to explain himself. But then, when opposing counsel started to question Mike about his columns about race—she ripped out the worst lines from his columns, stripped them of context, and read them to a jury that was half African-American—I saw him crumble.
Maybe he can image how many people Mike “made crumble” with his tweets?
Maybe that self reflection was a painful moment for Mike and that look on his faace was guilt and regret? Or maybe it was just the arrogance of self-righteousness, blindsided by the reflection of how he looks to other people, followed by the deflection that makes bigots overcome reflection and feel great again.
When the guy on your side gets “infuriated” by your articles,
Shortly after his spiritual and political transformation, he started writing a column for Townhall. Some of his pieces were funny, some were touching, and some were acerbic. I liked some of his pieces, I cringed at some, and I found some of them outright infuriating.
Maybe you can understand why people who were not his friends were crushed, crumbled - “don’t read the comments!” And were fighting back?
Oh - MIKE can fight back, he is a “warrior”! Because he’s an Asshole For Jesus. And Asssholes For Jesus are always on the side of righteousness. But if anyone fights back against Mike? Oh! They are terrible, they are cruel, they are “rife with deception and irregularity.”
a man who faced an avalanche of unjust hatred in his life,
UNJUST!!! Did you hear that? His writing could “infuriate” his
friend but anyone’s hatred of it and the guy who wrote it would be so very very
unjust!
At the same time, he kept poking the hornet’s nest. He kept writing his columns the same way. They were intentionally (and often excessively) provocative.
UNJUST! I tell you!
That poor, poor POOR majority Christian White Man With A College Degree and a job at a major university!! That POOR MAN! Being excessively provocative and someone
judging him on his behavior!. The injustice!
who had to fight for years to vindicate his most basic constitutional rights, and who helped mentor thousands of young conservative Christian students who often feel isolated and alone on secular and progressive campuses.
Okay, and yeah, “Christian Students who feel isolated” in Amerca as they sit in an enormous majority even in progressive norther cities (not like North Carolina AT ALL) are not isolated. Jesus H. Titty-Fucking Christ. Waaannh. Fucking Wanh. It must suck to feel so isolated while your school says prayers before sportsball games. I’ve worked in the South. And stoof by as the only one without bowed head while we had a prayer, at work, for a fucking machine to be turned on for the first time. There was singing. “Isolated”. Granted it was not
in North Carolina, but it was 15 miles from it. To the North.
The article seems to be saying, “this guy was a dyed-in-the-wool asshole, but even assholes have rights. Oh, and he was my friend and he’s dead, so you aren’t allowed to call him an asshole any more because that’s mean, even though he called you names when he was alive.”
So - overall?
I find it interesting that Lion would post this thing. I wonder what he was hoping to happen.
- Was he hoping that atheists would say, “wow, we should stop being so critical of Christians? This man was really abused!” ?
- Was he hoping Atheists would say all sorts of nasty things about him and then Lion could say, “see? See what horrible people secularists are?” That they would say nasty things about a guy who tweeted “ Don't shut down the universities. Shut down the non essential majors. Like Women’s Studies." and "Massa Cooper."? (I didn’t look for the parts that his own friend called “infuriating”)
- Was he hoping that we’d read the article and learn what a swell guy this man was?
- Was he hoping we’d see this and understand how important free speech is?
I dunno. I cannot imagine what Lion pictured as a success statement for posting. What was he hoping would happen? Lion doesn’t actually say what he thinks, he only quotes the friend of the asshole saying, “he was an asshole, BUT!...”. It would be nice if Lion made this post with some personal commentary of why he is sharing it with this community. That would make for good discussion rather than drive-by preaching.
For me, what happened was I learned about another Asshole For Jesus who dishes it out and then claims persecution when he gets pushback. When people treat him the way he has treated others.
In other words, nothing new was learned here.
