BEACON- Calling the current level of political discourse “extremely overwrought” and concluding that America “has lost its collective mind,” local neckbeard Richard Jackson-Cooper issued a call for nuance this week.
“It is possible to believe that [Minneapolis Police Officer] Derek Chauvin committed homicide against George Floyd AND that the police as an institution perform a vital role in preserving public safety and should not be abolished,” stated Jackson-Cooper in a Facebook status update that linked to a much longer Medium post. “It’s possible to believe that Covid-19 can spread more easily in large groups of people regardless of the purpose of that gathering, but that a gathering in which nearly all participants wear masks and exercising the constitutional right to peacefully protest constitutes a more defensible occasion on which to expose one’s self to that risk than does getting a haircut or going to a restaurant. And it is also possible to believe that racist beliefs and statements should be condemned but that empowering an online mob to go after anyone who has made an ignorant statement in the last 20 years and get them fired from their job and ostracized from society is not the way to change minds and will likely only make the problem worse but permanently labeling that person an outcast.”
As of press time, Jackson Cooper’s call for nuance has not provoked the “thoughtful, reasonable dialogue” he’d hoped for, instead resulting in one “like” from a high school friend who now lives in Alaska and three de-friendings, one of whom said they couldn’t deal with Jackson-Cooper’s “false-equivalence” and “desire to perpetuate the status quo by overcomplicating everything to the point that decisive action is impossible… he can keep sipping his Mountain Dew, playing [Red Dead Redemption] and feeling smart but not doing shit… we’re changing the world.”
