We cats are pretty fed up with the language people are using about the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year. The passive tense is disturbing — and yes, we're talking about "both sides."
Here's NPR on the subject: "One year ago, a car rammed into counter-protesters during a violent white nationalist rally..."
Correction, NPR: A white supremacist drove that car into the crowd. The car didn't drive itself.
And here's Donald Drumpf tweet-farting this morning in his usual idiotic way: "The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division."
Nope, Benedict Donald. Charlottesville didn't "result" in Heather Heyer's death. Her death "resulted" because a neo-Nazi took deliberate aim at her. We cats call that murder, and we HISS.
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