File this under the category of, “things that shouldn’t need to be stated.”
I stumbled across this post in my Facebook feed.
Nothing remarkable about the post itself. Like many people, I’ve heard the news that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a common condition for older people which means that he experiences swelling in his legs and will likely start wearing compression socks.
What is remarkable, and not in a good way, is what I saw in the lower left corner of the post: the fact that the most common reaction that readers had to this post was the “laughing face.”
Out of the 1,600 people who reacted to this post, a plurality reacted with laughter.
Hundreds of people think that President Trump being diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency is funny.
What the heck is wrong with these people???
Why on earth would someone think that a person being diagnosed with a medical condition is funny?
What kind of person laughs at another person’s medical diagnosis?
I simply do not understand this reaction. I don’t get it. At all. It is baffling to me.
I can’t imagine ever finding a public figure’s medical diagnosis to be humorous, no matter how much I disliked the public figure.
It’s difficult to find a better example of the meanness, the nastiness, the cruelty of the progressive left than this.
In our society, we hear again and again about the “cruelty” of the Trump administration, the “intolerance” of right-wing ideology, the idea that conservatives “lack empathy” for those different from themselves. Yet it is the progressive left that chooses to respond with humor, with mocking, with ridicule, with laughter when a person that they dislike is diagnosed with a medical condition.
This behavior is actually cruel.
This behavior is actually intolerant.
This behavior is what actually demonstrates a lack of empathy.
The progressive left has absolutely no claim to the moral high ground when they choose to react with laughter to the president’s medical diagnosis. Every time they accuse the right of cruelty, intolerance, or a lack of empathy, they demonstrate their own complete and utter hypocrisy.
Perhaps someone should visit the profile pages of each of the people who left a “laughing face” reaction to this WMUR news story, and scan their profile pages for any mention of a health struggle or medical diagnosis, affecting either the person themselves, a family member, or a friend. Then, that someone should leave a “laughing face” reaction on each of these posts. I wonder how these people would enjoy being the recipient of their own behavior. I wonder if they would still consider health problems to be funny, if they or their family members or friends were the ones being made fun of.
To state the obvious truth that I alluded to at the beginning of this blog post, the fact that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency is not funny. If it weren’t for the moral bankruptcy of the progressive left, such a thing wouldn’t need to be stated. But unfortunately, it does.
