Today I'm going to talk about a thing that never fails to give me a hate boner. Yes, kiddies the topic of the day is cowardice. Not just run of the mill,"Oh shit I might die. Run away" cowardice either. I've got no beef with Shag and Scoob. My issue is more insidious and far more pervasive. My problem "arises" when that fear becomes a weapon.
Its a relatively popular narrative trope, but its a trope because these people exist. The folks who are so afraid of something (for most people failure or pain but also intimacy, judgement or motherfucking monsters) that the people around them become a resource. This kind of thing is disgusting. Now, let me reiterate; its not cowardly to run away from a bear, it super fucking is to kick the person next to you in the junk so they can't. Anytime you throw someone under a bus in the hope that it wont hit you, you become less than a person.
Its a behavior we need to stop, and not just in ourselves. We need to punish that shit, demonstrate that it will not be tolerated. Now, while I personally am a fan of corporal action, for some reason not everyone agrees with the value of neck-punching. If that's you, call people out; it would have been amazing if Anderson Copper had, mid-interview, called Donald Sterling a piece of shit; and it would have shone a nasty old man that he can't get away with his silly shit in real time.
So next time you see someone try to fuck another person over to protect themselves, do something about it. Its about time we all started acting like the community we are and doing what is fucking right. All that's required for evil to flourish or whatever.
-Eshi
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