More Jezebel comment insanity

Jez does this thing where they post random pictures of people now and then. Used to be they were always celebrity photos, too often they were clearly paparazzi pics snapped of celebs with their children. Anyway, one of the Snap Judgments posted today shows a woman at a protest against Obama for not releasing the new prisoner abuse photos. These photos, it is now claimed, feature images of rape of men, women, and children. Are we so desperate to make our own soldiers look bad that we would demand that photos which (allegedly) depict violent, sexual humiliation of others be made available for anyone to see? If people are really that concerned about these prisoners they will realize that sending out pixellated images of their violation to the world is probably not in their best interest. Just as I didn't think people "needed to see" the image of Rhianna's beaten face to understand what (allegedly) happened between her and Chris Brown, I don't think a photo spread is going to convince everyone that torture really did happen at Abu Ghraib.

But that's not even my beef.

My beef is that a bunch of the photo's commenters are complaining because they say the image used in the photo looks too much like a black Klansman. Even when others point out that the image is actually a silloutte of a prisoner from one of the previously-released photos and that it is kind of a nod to the old iPod ads, some say it is still "bad choice". One person claims that if people (Jezzie readers) "kind of invested in knowing about this stuff" are confused by the image, then it must be bad.

I'm sorry, but IF these people are really that "invested in knowing about this stuff" then they (like me) probably would have immediately recognized the image. It says something to me about the commenters that their first thoughts were "KKK". It says they are looking for reasons to be offended. Let it go, ladies.