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Has got to go. As if Greenwald's post about a Chinese Muslim group (that few, I'd wager, have even heard of prior to a few months ago) wasn't off-putting enough, this author is so arrogant as to pit one man's death against the deaths of people he has decided to take as his "trophy cause".
I'd like to believe that we, as himans, are capable of feeling sorrow for any one person's or group's deaths as close to equally as possible. Mr. Engelhardt's headline was enough to discourage me from reading this article. Why read through something that condemns people for actually acknowledging the life of a legendary artist, using the plight of a people halfway across the globe as a foil?
This crazy mentality among the left--of which I am part of, mind you--is the very reason we're mocked and parodied in various forms of media. If you want to use trophy causes to make yourselves feel superior, have at it. Just don't expect me to hop on the bandwagon for honorless purposes.
