Post by debutante on Jun 19, 2019 8:55:08 GMT -5
I'm not going to post a link to the topic I'm going to discuss. I came upon it last night on someone's Twitter feed and it upset me so badly that it took me hours to settle down. I don't want to take the chance of someone else having their equilibrium knocked off kilter as badly as mine was last night.
I don't think a description will be quite as powerful.
I found two videos on some woman from Pittsburg's Twitter feed last night. The first was taken by a building adjacent to a huge parking lot. In the video, a young man was standing outside of a clinic wailing at the top of his lungs, "(name), please don't kill our baby." In the background of the video, you could hear comments from other people questioning whether they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. The video was taken at a distance, so that the face of the young man was not visible.
The second video, (taken from the back) showed the same young man (judging by the clothing). He was sitting on the curb facing the parking lot sobbing -- and between sobs he was trying to tell whoever he was talking to how much he wanted his child. Voices were trying to console him -- telling him that at some future date he could always have another child with someone else (not very consoling if you begin at the premise that each child is unique).
Nevertheless, I don't want to talk about abortion.
What I want to talk about is the responses to the videos this woman posted.
All of the people who didn't believe in abortion felt sorry for the young man, said they would keep him in their prayers, and hoped that he would be able to move on from this trauma. A lot of various comments about how "loving" a man he appeared to be too -- generally the remarks were supportive and positive.
Those who held a pro abortion stance -- I don't even know where to begin. There were those who mocked the young man's "manhood" because he cried. There were those who said he proved he'd be a lousy father because he cried(?) There were many who put gifs of people just laughing. There were people who put gifs of women strutting around being "bold and liberated" (or what advertisers depict as such). And there were gifs of people "giving the finger".
The contrast between the responses of the two groups to these videos of a young man in pain was stark.
I really don't know what makes some people capable of compassion and other people think it's funny when someone is heartbroken.
But it makes you wonder about people.
--Debutante
I don't think a description will be quite as powerful.
I found two videos on some woman from Pittsburg's Twitter feed last night. The first was taken by a building adjacent to a huge parking lot. In the video, a young man was standing outside of a clinic wailing at the top of his lungs, "(name), please don't kill our baby." In the background of the video, you could hear comments from other people questioning whether they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. The video was taken at a distance, so that the face of the young man was not visible.
The second video, (taken from the back) showed the same young man (judging by the clothing). He was sitting on the curb facing the parking lot sobbing -- and between sobs he was trying to tell whoever he was talking to how much he wanted his child. Voices were trying to console him -- telling him that at some future date he could always have another child with someone else (not very consoling if you begin at the premise that each child is unique).
Nevertheless, I don't want to talk about abortion.
What I want to talk about is the responses to the videos this woman posted.
All of the people who didn't believe in abortion felt sorry for the young man, said they would keep him in their prayers, and hoped that he would be able to move on from this trauma. A lot of various comments about how "loving" a man he appeared to be too -- generally the remarks were supportive and positive.
Those who held a pro abortion stance -- I don't even know where to begin. There were those who mocked the young man's "manhood" because he cried. There were those who said he proved he'd be a lousy father because he cried(?) There were many who put gifs of people just laughing. There were people who put gifs of women strutting around being "bold and liberated" (or what advertisers depict as such). And there were gifs of people "giving the finger".
The contrast between the responses of the two groups to these videos of a young man in pain was stark.
I really don't know what makes some people capable of compassion and other people think it's funny when someone is heartbroken.
But it makes you wonder about people.
--Debutante
