McDonald's Beating Shows How Sick Our Society Has Become

By Douglas V. Gibbs

We have lost our minds. Without digging deeply into this story the realities of the times we live in slams into us horrifically, leaving us to ask, "Have we lost our soul?"

Then the details makes this story all the more disturbing.

This is not the first beating at a McDonalds, but this one is especially brutal. The video is difficult to watch, and for those of you that are squeamish, perhaps you shouldn't. But if you want to truly understand the insanity, you may have to.

Two women nearly beat another human being to death in this video. What's worse is the person filming the incident tells the attackers to get out of the restaurant before the cops get there, after the victim has what appears to be a seizure following another blow to the head. Other people watch, employees watch, there is little attempt to stop the attack. In fact, some of the spectators are laughing.

When this video first surfaced, it was apparent that the attackers are black, and the victim is white. Therefore, the police are investigating if it was racially motivated. Had it been reversed, and the attackers were white, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that immediately it would have been assumed it was racially motivated. There would have been no "we'll look into the possibility" about it.

Then an even bigger twist enters the whole thing. It turns out the victim is a dude-chick. This changes everything. Suddenly, since the victim is trans-gendered, it must be a hate crime, according to the powers that be. The attitude that this "might be racially motivated" changed to, "It's obviously a hate motivated attack."

I am not making light of this. Any brutal attack like this against any human being is a crime, is shocking, and is unacceptable. The facts we keep learning, however, simply shows us how sick our society has become. The most disturbing, however, is not the consideration this might be racially motivated, or that the attack may have been motivated against a sexually-confused person because of their current lifestyle. . . though those things are indeed disturbing. The most disturbing part of this to me is that nobody helped, other than an older woman trying to drag the body out of harm's way at one point.

The Good Samaritans have fearfully slinked into the shadows, and the crazy people are running the asylum.

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