Killing Children in the Age of Disposability: The Parkland Shooting Was About More Than Gun Violence

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We live in an age in which the politics of disposability has merged with what Jeffrey St. Clair has called the spectacle of "American Carnage." The machineries of social death and misery now drive a mode of casino capitalism in which more and more people are considered waste, expendable and excess. The politics of disposability now couples with acts of extreme violence as pressure grows to exclude more and more people from the zones of visibility, justice and compassion. - TruthOut.org

Until conservatives are either removed from office or are forced to come to terms with the politics of disposability, that they foster, massacres and acts of terrorism are going to continue.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R

[niyad]

2. k and r

[sandensea]

3. Human sacrifices

That's all these dead young people, and those in every other school shooting, are to the GOPee.

Just as all those who lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan quagmires were to Shrub and his gangsters.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Our right to live our lives or assholic right to guns.

Which do we choose?

[flibbitygiblets]

5. Nail on the head. Horrifyingly ironic that people who cling to guns and religion seem to have

little regard for life AFTER birth. Because of course, Jesus would be advocating guns everywhere, saying "every man for himself, nothing we can do about these here dead kids!"

Sorry to offend any Xtians out there. Many of us in the "I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes" crowd just quietly roll our eyes and ignore the religious as long as they're not making decisions that threaten our lives or freedom FROM religion. Has anyone else noticed how many religious people have pictures of guns and Jesus on the same FB page? Then they have the nerve to say that "what we really need is prayer in school, that's what's wrong with society". NO. A stunning lack of education, compassion and mental health resources is the problem.

[IronLionZion]

6. They constantly let us know whose lives matter

not the voters apparently. Except high school students will turn 18 eventually and vote out the bastards who refuse to make better laws.

It's pretty amazing that Canada, Australia, and other countries have managed to avoid tyrannical governments and mass shootings at the same time. Americans are very unique in that regard.

[malthaussen]

7. Well, yeah, we can only warehouse so many in prisons.

One of the more urgent social questions we aren't facing: what do we do with the people who are surplus to requirements? The answer "Let 'em die," which is thought by many, is only expressed by a few.

-- Mal