• Glenn Greenwald Blasts 'Smug Football-Spiking =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Glee=92?=

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    Journalist Glenn Greenwald slammed people on Twitter who were engaging
    on Wednesday in what he described as “smug football-spiking glee” in
    response to Rep.-elect Luke Letlow’s (R-LA) death from COVID-19.

    Greenwald was responding to a tweet from Daily Beast editor Molly
    Jong-Fast, who posted a video of Letlow urging the economy to reopen in October. “He died of coronavirus yesterday at 41 years old,” she said
    simply in response to the video.

    “The smug football-spiking glee over Luke Letlow’s death at 41 is one
    of the most repulsive things I’ve seen on this site,” Greenwald wrote. “Celebrating death is repugnant in all cases but he wasn’t a COVID
    denier. Urging that the costs of isolation & economic ruin be
    considered isn’t denialism[.]”

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1344281938413158400

    “Many deaths are caused by careless choices: people don’t eat well;
    they don’t exercise; they smoke, drink or take drugs; they don’t have
    safe sex; they drive when tired. But we still mourn their deaths as
    tragic, not giggle that they got what they deserved — except
    sociopaths,” Greenwald continued.

    Greenwald went on to offer the example of Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA),
    who tested positive for COVID-19 after rallying for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Atlanta. “Do you think
    that’s karmic justice, that if he dies it’s just [desserts]?” he asked.

    “Basic human decency isn’t that hard,” Greenwald added.

    Greenwald was met with pushback, including from Fast, who said,
    “Personally as someone who is 42, the idea of dying at 41 really scares
    me. This is not about dunking this about fear.”

    Responding to a user who called his death “a lesson for people not
    taking the virus seriously,” Greenwald maintained Letlow did take it
    seriously and often wore masks.

    https://twitter.com/theculkineffect/status/1344282938222010372

    Replies to Fast’s initial tweet were replete with mean-spirited
    condemnation toward Letlow, which Greenwald drew upon to make his point
    to political scientist Ian Bremmer that Fast’s followers understood her implication “perfectly well.”

    “Read the comments underneath the tweet,” he urged. “Her message was
    clear: she chose a video where he said that economic shutdown is
    causing great harm to imply he was a COVID denier. Same here – their
    followers all got the message loud and clear[.]” He also linked to a
    similar tweet from Vox journalist Aaron Rupar.

    “I’m not cherry-picking: here are the first five responses,” Greenwald
    said. “Most are like this or worse. Same with Aaron’s tweets. Everyone
    knows the point conveyed[.]” The tweets he featured included sentiments
    such as “Natural selection. He literally murdered himself,” “This guy
    literally drank the Kool Aid and died,” and “It appears he didn’t take
    COVID seriously and it had the last laugh!”

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1344288603577458690

    “People do a lot for re-tweets and social media attention. It’s like
    crack. And it’s even worse when one’s brain sits in a partisan oven all
    day. I don’t exempt myself. Twitter fosters the worst in human nature.
    People got the exact message she (and Aaron) purposely conveyed,”
    Greenwald added.

    Related: Leftists Blame Trump For Herman Cain’s Death

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