Farm Accident Digest

January 14th, 2004

Ok, this will be an unpopular opinion, but you'll have to cope. I find this cartoon disgusting. I'm about to engage in a classic "...but" session here, so just be warned. Rachel Corrie was indeed a fool. Her death was an accident caused by her being where she just plain should not have been. Her actions supported terrorism and murder both by her trying to protect the infrastructure as she was when she died and by her anti-American and anti-Israel fueled excusism. However (the word I chose instead of "but" just to throw you off) none of this meant she deserved to die. Nor will I revel in her death.

I guess for some her death is nothing more than a happy Darwin Award event, something to laugh about("flat bitch", "corrie crushers"). The anger towards some naive, and perhaps not so naive, fool who goes overseas to give succor and excuse without judgment to murderers is understandable. But it does not excuse the mirth over her death. I would hate to be eternally judged based off the ideas I had at 23. Yes, she is entirely responsible for her beliefs and actions, actions which lead directly to her death, but forgive me if I won't take the time to giggle about it.

The real "idiotarians", to use the now tiresome term, are those who exploit her death with attempts to gloss over the hate and deify/sanctify her. The anger and energy should be dedicated to the ISM, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which does whatever it can to print unquestioned terror apology after apology and anyone else who would use her to support a lie.

Challenge those who exploit her memory, and that goes for those yukking it up too. She was a fool, but she is dead. Let her rest.

I was just going to post something about this, saying kind of the same thing, but you've done a far better job than I ever could have.

Please don't delete this post.

Posted By Emily on Jan 14th, 2004 at 12:16pm

I try not to delete any posts. That's why I created a special category for them.

Posted By Rodya on Jan 14th, 2004 at 12:34pm

Excellent post. Thank you so much for this.

Posted By red on Jan 14th, 2004 at 2:16pm