http://x-hawkeye.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] x-hawkeye.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] xp_echo 2015-08-22 08:54 am (UTC)

No, I didn't. And I think everything you said is fantastic. The problem is, say you're from somewhere like Hell's Kitchen. You don't have the chance or the opportunity to do any of that stuff. Ideals are great, goals are awesome. But you're fifteen and you're living in a shack of an apartment, what do you do when you see someone getting beat up? Wait around for somebody with money to show up and set up some program so that hopefully people will learn that bad things are bad and not do them anymore?

No, you strap on a stupid ski mask and you go out your window and, since you're able to do things nobody expects you to be able to do, you stop the guy doing the mugging or the raping or the kidnapping and you tie him up and you drop him in front of the police station with a note.

Grand plans and sweeping cultural change are all well and good. If you can get something going, more power to you. But it's gotta start somewhere.

Thing is, you can come at anybody here and try to bash them over the head with your speeches and righteous indignation, but the truth of the matter winds up being that you don't know any of us well enough to make the kinds of generalizations you're making.

Is Warren an asshole? Yeah, sometimes. But that's not all he is. You can google him to find out what the gossip rags say he's done, but unless you stop mouthing off long enough to actually ask him about some of the other stuff, you don't have any room to say the things you're saying. You just make yourself sound close minded and kind of hypocritical.

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