This Story’s Just Creepy and Bigoted
We talk a lot on the ZRC blog about the tendency for Anti-Zombie prejudice to lead people to classify anything or anyone they personally dislike as a ‘Zombie’. A lot. We even have a tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word‘, here on the blog.
However we’ve rarely seen a case this brazen:
One particular item stood out in the stack of stuff Democratic county Supervisor Richard Elías brought with him to this week’s board meeting.
A notebook. Title: “The Book of Zombies.” Illustration: a number of howling faces of animated corpses in various stages of ugly.
It’s got a bunch of blank pages in it for note-taking. Except for the first one. There, Elías has etched names of folks he thinks qualifies as zombies.
One of them is Joe Sweeney, the now-deceased perennial Republican candidate most known for railing against illegal immigration at public forums.
Elías won’t dish on the other names, except to say there are eight. They don’t have to be dead. But they’re all people who have made an appearance at some point before the board. You thought he was just taking notes on all your salient points.
He didn’t say if he’s taking nominations, but if he is, it could be a stiff race. (That hurt. Apologies.)
Yes, it’s really good that an elected official is taking notes on his personal enemies in public, labelling them as being members of an oppressed minority group. /sarcasm
Seriously, what is wrong with this individual? Has he been spending too much time watching ‘The Walking Dead’? Is he a diehard Romero cultist? Perhaps he was simply raised in a Living Supremacist household?
The mind boggles. Can’t Richard Elías sympathize with the Differently Animated even a little? Why does he feel the need to use their name and image to attack his personal and political enemies in this fashion?
For shame, Richard Elías. For shame.
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