Proverbs 24:
17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
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A. D. Jameson is the author of five books, most recently I FIND YOUR LACK OF FAITH DISTURBING: STAR WARS AND THE TRIUMPH OF GEEK CULTURE and CINEMAPS: AN ATLAS OF 35 GREAT MOVIES (with artist Andrew DeGraff). Last May, he received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at UIC.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. had this to say about the subject:
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
He must have read his X-Men comics, learned from Professor X.
Apparently, that is not from MLK, it has just been falsely ascribed to him. It’s still a good quote though.
I told you—it’s Professor X!
My apologies, everyone!
Apparently, everything but the first sentence is from MLK, Jr.
Here’s an essay about the misattribution of the first line:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/
This whole thing episode is fascinating. I wonder how much viral misquoting actually happens on the web. Probably a ton.
“At least five new misquotes are added every day, ever since Al Gore invented the internet.” —Amber Noelle Sparks
While I was walking down the street yesterday, outside DePaul, a man walked by me holding up a paper and pointing to the giant headline. He was shouting, “We got him! We got him! Shot him in the head!”
The pundits on cable news were no less triumphant (when I saw them while at the gym). Speculating endlessly as to whether we’d get photographs of bin Laden’s corpse, other corpses—not to mention dwelling endlessly on the detail that bin Laden had used his wife as a human shield. (I see that part of the narrative’s already changing. Perhaps that comic book detail was what I tell students is called a hook?) (Update: Here’s more on how this part of the story is evolving.)
These are the kinds of things I think about whenever people tell me that the US is a Christian nation.
Hiding behind the wife is standard rhetoric in these circumstances. Remember Lincoln supposedly sneaking into Washington disguised as a woman (he was wearing a travelling rug); or Jeff Davies supposedly captured while dressed as a woman. It’s just a way of emasculating the enemy after the fact: look how much bigger, bolder, tougher, more masculine we are!
Whenever I see this story about some hated enemy hiding behind a woman, I reckon it is just someone small trying to make themselves seem big.
Notice too how the firefight story has changed; it seems that bin Laden wasn’t actually armed and wasn’t putting up a fight. But it doesn’t sound so good if you say: we went in and shot an unarmed man who was relaxing with his family.
Yes, because that’s called “assassination.”
That’s a beautiful MLK quote.
How long before the movie is made? People jumping, cheering, jarring, sneering at the screen. My bets are on Michael Bay.
my money is on kathryn bigelow.
Oh. Well how about that?:
http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/will-president-obama-feature-in-kathryn-bigelows-kill-bin-laden.php
Didn’t know about that one.
Yeah, I saw that. I will wait and see what she does (if she does). Bigelow’s not a fool; she might make something interesting.
“Some of [9/11] families think seeing photos of bin Laden might help their healing.”
[http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/white-house-considering-releasing-bin-laden-death-photo.php?ref=tn]
I have all the sympathy in the world for those families. I can’t imagine what they’re feeling.
The rest, though—
I also recalled this, earlier today: “Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over” (Sunday 14 October 2001)
What a sad past decade it’s been.