Boom. Boston went Boom

[ed_rex]

The return of The Droz Report:
No prayers for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings

Comments

[jade_noir]

Young Géoff! such a provocative piece you have there

Yours didn't bother me in the least!

[ed_rex]

As per the subject-line, your post didn't bother me; quite the contrary. I quote from my piece: "If you were there, or you live in Boston, or you know people who were, or do, go ahead and share your pain; it's yours and you have every right. But the rest of us should shut the fuck up [...]

Not only were you personally affected, your post was a friends' only expression of your very real thoughts and feelings about what happened; you weren't copy-pasting ritual catch-phrases because, well, it seems like that's what we're supposed to do nowadays when a tragedy strikes close to home (or is sufficiently a-political, like an earthquake, much farther away).

We want to feel safe in our public spaces, we want to be able to gather in large crowds in order to accomplish goals together without fear of physical harm.Which are pretty reasonable desires, in my opinion! You say it is dangerous "just plain anywhere", but that's only partly true. While no where is completely safe, some places are much safer than others. (You live in Philadelphia; I'm

Not quite my point

[ed_rex]

... but yours is every bit as germane.

My frustration with parochialism doesn't mean I think local tragedies should be ignored. Thanks for the reminder.