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“The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren Now, these responses have largely been rejected by a society that still understands the true horror of this crime, with particular scorn reserved for Lorenz.
Yet Lorenz has been singled out not because of her rhetoric alone, but because she failed to hide her celebration of Thompson’s murder behind a thin veil of comedy. I’m not just talking about the predictable torrent ofmemes, many of them starring Nintendo characters in reference to the murderer’s name, or even the viral fake post from Burger King reading, “We don’t snitch.”
I’m talking about ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, who somehow remains employed as a host of a supposedly comedic late-night show despite being about as funny as a cold sore at a wedding.In 2017, comedy was nowhere to be seen when the same Kimmel — who, like Thomson, is a father of two children — broke down in tears during a monologue discussing his son’s heart condition.
This isn’t a call for censorship. People, and especially comedians, have a right to joke about whatever they want. If you want to joke about 9/11 or the Holocaust or the recent murder of a father of two, be my guest. But we also don’t have to sit around and pretend that it’s normal, or acceptable, or indicative of a healthy society.In many ways, comedy is our society’s only working weather vane, allowing us to gauge our relationship with the moral line between good and evil.
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