By this point -- especially in the wake of his now legendary appearance on Piers Morgan's program -- picking on bug-eyed, conspiracy-crazed gun-nut Alex Jones seems like, er, shooting at an easy target. But, one of my colleagues posted the clip below on Facebook recently, and it made my blood boil anew, so I'm sharing it here.
The sad and scary thing in this instance is that a large swathe of the American people thinks like this man. Granted, it's not a particularly bright swathe, but still. On a purely surface level -- subtracting his requisite, frothy-mouthed alarmism from the equation -- the mere fact that he's reinforcing the demonization of kids who aren't jocks -- let alone kids who possess even a modicum of intellectual curiosity -- is irresponsible enough. Don't we already have enough of a bullying problem?
He's right about one thing, though. We nerds ARE dangerous.
Is this...real?!
Posted by: GG Allin | January 20, 2013 at 08:32 AM