This post was intended as satire of the tendency of leftists to claim tragedies of violence as evidence of this or that underlying systemic social injustice, and then to exploit them to push political/policy agendas.
Donald Trump has weighed in on the devastating Amtrak train derailment that killed six by claiming the tragedy highlighted a wider infrastructure problem only he is capable of resolving.
If any single town in the region can stake a claim to tragedy, it is Middletown, which lost 36 residents in the rubble of the World Trade Center, one of the worst tolls in the metropolitan area.
He claimed this "tragedy of two lost women: Caddy and her daughter" came to him first as an image of a little girl with symbolically muddy drawers; he loved it most, he said, because it "caused me the most grief and anguish, as the mother loves the child who became the thief or murderer more than the one who became the priest".
[Page B5.] Insurers and regulators debated the prospect that some companies might not be able to pay all their claims in the tragedy.
Uefa will decide on possible sanctions on March 22 and United intend to submit a dossier of the fans' claims that a tragedy was only narrowly averted.
1994: Some 270 pilgrims are killed in a stampede during the stoning ritual at Mina. 1990: The worst hajj-related tragedy claims the lives of 1,426 pilgrims in a stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites in Mecca.
When a tragedy claims one of their own, there's plenty of guilt and blame to go around.
It's hard to walk away from that Hannity interview thinking anything but that Zimmerman is a cold, callous, highly calculating killer who claims the entire tragedy was "God's plan;"who doesn't regret carrying a weapon or pursuing Trayvon; and who believes he will be acquitted.
But Fred O'Neil, her friend and former voice coach, described her plight as "a tragedy", claiming fame had not brought her happiness.
