By now, everyone who has a social media account has heard about “comedienne” Kathy Griffin’s wildly controversial photo in which she’s holding up the bloodied severed head of President Trump.
While there were those who denounced the incident as “treasonous,” most common sense folks on the right — although (rightly) disgusted by the image — recognized it for what it was: A legitimate form of free speech.
Indeed, the main issue conservatives had, as they do in cases like this, is the blatant double standard that inevitably comes into play. “Assassination chic,” if you will, always seems to be en vogue when the GOP occupies the White House. Not to mention, the public is perpetually lectured about how “hate speech” can cause people to do bad things; that is, “hate speech” uttered by conservatives.
Let’s face it — if a right-leaning comedian had done to Barack Obama what Griffin did to Trump, that person would be an instant pariah, end of story. The mainstream media and Hollywood would not be making excuses for it, but would effectively end the comedian’s career.
Enter The Daily Mississippian’s Mikala Turner, a social work major. To her, Griffin’s protest “merely” informs everyone “that liberals and her supporters will not be silent in the face of the changes that Trump has implemented.”
Griffin’s photo was a direct protest to all the negative things that Trump has passed since being sworn in, such as the immigrant ban, the new energy plan that focuses on lowering the cost of energy without addressing the growing concern of climate change, and the impending threat to affordable birth control for millions of women.
Some people look down upon Griffin for this because they see it as “going too far” or too graphic. People forget that sometimes you must go to great lengths to get people to listen and pay attention to what is happening in the world.
In the end, Griffin had every right to do what she did. Though it may not have been socially acceptable, it was legal. Just because some people look down upon her methods, it does not make Griffin’s photo any less protected by the most absolute law of the land.
Again, the issue isn’t that Griffin had the right to do what she did.
The point is that, in the middle of an unconventional war against fundamentalist terrorists who routinely utilize gruesome beheadings to further their sick “agenda,” somehow President Trump is such a comparable peril that, according to Turner, Griffin felt the need to use ISIS symbolism to whine about an imagined financial menace to The Pill.
And that’s straight-up batty.
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