The Telegram and Gazette’s Letters from Idiots
I love reading the T&G’s letters section online, because it is filled with choice, uninformed opinions that would be depressing if they weren’t so genuinely stupid. Especially worth noting are the comments to news stories left by idiots. These folks all have in common a worldview that divides the world into good and bad (policies, presidents, teachers, students, people in general). It’s as thought they must ascribe blame to someone, all the time.
A recent event at Wachusett High School spawned a long list of letters about kids involved in a beating. It was a nasty beating, and it was caught on video and put on Youtube for all to see. The opinions mostly fell into the category of “kids these days are spoiled rotten; punish them and they will improve.”
Many of the comments on this story fell back on the “bad kid, bad family” explanation; others asserted that school […]
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