Wednesday 30 September 2015

Quote Of The Month

Battsby on that bloody photo and its inevitable consequences....
"We no longer have to assemble in garment-rending mobs to loudly and openly mourn though; now we have the internet to do it for us. And all it takes is a tiny little trigger to get the tears flowing and the high-pitched shrieks synchronising into a cacophony of awful, self-pitying, stream of demands for relief devoid of reason. The border numbers released a few weeks ago had over half the country demanding controls on immigration. Now, however, the pictures of Aylan Kurdi have flipped opinion among the weak who are now demanding we fling our doors wide. People who normally don’t care much about anything and can happily spend hours revelling in video violence have come out of the woodwork all weepy when confronted with images of things they don’t normally have to deal with. Where is the common sense, the level head?"

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Where is the common sense, the level head?" - They emigrated years ago.

Greencoat said...

Now, however, the pictures of Aylan Kurdi have flipped opinion among the weak who are now demanding we fling our doors wide.'

No - I just don't believe this - it is the media sounding off. Nobody I know - aside from the odd neo-communist Guardian reader - is demanding any such thing.

Anonymous said...

Yeah and where is the photo of his dad, the bloke who put him in the boat from a safe country? Oh that's right, back in the homeland where it's oh so dangerous for him yet he got back there within hours to bury the consequences of his own actions.

JuliaM said...

"No - I just don't believe this - it is the media sounding off. Nobody I know - aside from the odd neo-communist Guardian reader - is demanding any such thing."

Snap! Most in my officer were decidedly against being manipulated this way.

"Oh that's right, back in the homeland where it's oh so dangerous for him yet he got back there within hours to bury the consequences of his own actions."

Quite!