This is a great piece. Kat is a brilliant writer but in this case I really am annoyed by the "both sides" thing. This is not a "both sides" issue. This is hypocrisy plain and simple -- that exists on the Left. The Right is consistent in its view that if law enforcement fails it's up to the citizenry. This has been true for at least as lo…
This is a great piece. Kat is a brilliant writer but in this case I really am annoyed by the "both sides" thing. This is not a "both sides" issue. This is hypocrisy plain and simple -- that exists on the Left. The Right is consistent in its view that if law enforcement fails it's up to the citizenry. This has been true for at least as long as there has been a Conservative movement. In fact, it's an American thing mostly. It's just not a New York thing. Had Neely not died Penny would have been hailed a hero.
I remember a similar video of a bunch of people on a subway sitting there and allowing horrible harassment -- the Twitter commenters (on the Right) kept saying "do something"! I imagine that Penny believed he had the skills to do something and that it would have been shameful for him to sit there and do nothing. It was a tragedy, no doubt, and it was not his job to keep the riders safe but he did not mean to kill Neely. He did what he did in an effort not to kill him but unfortunately he didn't realize how fragile of a situation it really was.
This is a great piece. Kat is a brilliant writer but in this case I really am annoyed by the "both sides" thing. This is not a "both sides" issue. This is hypocrisy plain and simple -- that exists on the Left. The Right is consistent in its view that if law enforcement fails it's up to the citizenry. This has been true for at least as long as there has been a Conservative movement. In fact, it's an American thing mostly. It's just not a New York thing. Had Neely not died Penny would have been hailed a hero.
I remember a similar video of a bunch of people on a subway sitting there and allowing horrible harassment -- the Twitter commenters (on the Right) kept saying "do something"! I imagine that Penny believed he had the skills to do something and that it would have been shameful for him to sit there and do nothing. It was a tragedy, no doubt, and it was not his job to keep the riders safe but he did not mean to kill Neely. He did what he did in an effort not to kill him but unfortunately he didn't realize how fragile of a situation it really was.