On death and rejoicing

[twfarlan]

Anyone who reads my journal is probably waiting to see what I'll say about the death today of Jerry Falwell. It might surprise some of you that I'm not rejoicing, exactly

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[acelightning]

i'm glad he's dead, and can no longer spew his hate speech into the public air. i'm very tempted to rejoice, but such a display of Schadenfreude would be unseemly, as well as lowering me to his level (as when he gloated over 9/11). and here's a final bit of irony, or perhaps poetic justice: Fr#d Ph#lps and his inbred gang are going to picket Falwell's funeral.

[bronxelf_ag001]

I rejoiced all afternoon.

I have no regrets for doing so. I don't care what it looks like. I hated him when he was alive, I hate him just as much dead.

The fact that the Phelps nutbags are going to protest is hysterically funny. It's like watching the worm eat itself.

[twfarlan]

(shrug) I have no problem with people rejoicing in his death. I have no problem with people staying silent; filkertom's journal entry about this described a great series of reasons for just letting it pass unmarked.

Me, I'm waiting to see what happens next.

[bronxelf_ag001]

I'm hoping one of Falwell's people offs Phelps at the funeral.

Comedy gold.