The New York Times asked readers what “Black Friday” means to them.
NY Times asked readers for comments on Black Friday. The response is predictably hilarious: http://t.co/dEAfPKI9BL
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
John Sexton of Breitbart.com tweeted out some of the responses, which are nothing short of … completely expected:
"Revolution is building and cannot be stopped. Happy Thanksgiving." http://t.co/VEqK4KwULS
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"If the total brain power of the U.S. was consolidated, there would not be enough energy to build a bomb that would blow up a peanut."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"A day to buy even more junk that no one needs and will wind up on the floor or in the closet. Shame, shame." http://t.co/bi4zJs4SA1
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"Black. Horrible. Like disease, doom, and death." http://t.co/NGdyCadxss
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"The absolute worst aspect of consumerism! I'm not religious but Jesus I'm sure would be disgusted!" http://t.co/0Vc5PK2Eu5
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"the selfish people who shop on Thanksgiving…should be ashamed but I am sure that their greed and sense of self importance is stronger."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"I wish I felt as sure as you do about a revolution against corporate greed and low wages." http://t.co/Dv1xQ2751Q
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"It means the total subversion of all values to commerce." http://t.co/DD4RuMJKWW
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
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"the Black Friday "tradition"…contributes in any number of ways to the environmental catastrophes that are destroying the planet."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"I suspect that somewhere, in some culture, something meaningful or tragic may have happened to have created a truly 'black' day."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"Black Friday is a particularly ugly representation of my nation's shallowness…" http://t.co/JbCiqAVYKT
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"May gods mercy be upon those dumb enough to fall to the crass consumerisms that befall them on this less then holy day."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"Anyone willing to participate is subject to harsh judgment from people smarter than they are." http://t.co/HmlZPU5nhD
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"It means being American is a little more disappointing to me each year." http://t.co/MyWqFM9LCK
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"Black Friday? No, don't do it and won't let those dear to me do it either."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"The sick (hoarders) accumulate more stuff that soon go to garbage and contribute to more environmental degradation" http://t.co/GmEk5DzBsy
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"Our beautiful New Mexico night sky is marred by spotlights coming from a mall rousing the zombies for Black Friday."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
"importuned by relentless media and marketing…driven into unsurmountable debt believing that their only reason for living is consumption."
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
There are more on Sexton’s feed @VerumSerum.
Sexton later noted:
One of the most amusing parts of the NY Times Black Friday thread is all the many people who say they shop online instead.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
It didn't occur to any of the 300+ commenters that "big box" stores have these crazy sales because Amazon is killing them.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) November 29, 2013
So some of these New York Times commmenters might actually be contributing to the Black Friday madness? Maybe the NYT will do a story about that.
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