COVID has given permission to horrible people to turn their maliciousness into a virtue
Being a good person is difficult.
Being a bad person is easy.
There are few temptations so inveigling as to make being bad into being good.
This has happened many times before throughout history.
Persecutions, pogroms, every time a Klansman lynched a black man, a German beat up a Jew, a Turk attacked an Armenian, a Hutu killed a Tutti with a machete, the attacker had been convinced that they were in the right and in the side of virtue.
COVID has brought this evil to modern suburban America.
Man in a mask with an Iām vaccinated pin chases woman around Target for not wearing a mask while bragging about his wife being a doctor. This is peak coronabro. pic.twitter.com/Gbe1qQ3iF3
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 16, 2021
White man kicks black family out of New York restaurant for not having vaccine papers. Patrons cheer. This is where we are: https://t.co/WvMoVPIK7g
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 16, 2021
Harassing women in a store, kicking hungry children out of a restaurant, this is grotesque, but the perpetrators have been convinced that their vile behavior is on the side of the angels.
They are proud to be cruel when their cruelty is directed at an undesirable class.
I legitimately do not know how we step back from this peacefully, because society cannot function like this.