There was a time not so very long ago when a national tragedy would unite the country, if only for a short time. We would grieve the humans lost as humans lost, innocent people taken too soon with loved ones left behind. In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, it is all too clear that those days are gone.
Hayley Geftman-Gold, a top legal executive at CBS, is one of those people on whose humanity we cannot rely. As The Daily Caller reports, she posted on Facebook “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered” — presumably a reference to the Sandy Hook shooting — “have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”
Geftman-Gold, according to her profile, went to Columbia Law school, and now holds the position of VP, Senior Counsel, Strategic Transactions, at CBS. This is a highly-educated woman with a prestigious position saying that she doesn’t care that people are dead because of their political affiliation. This is not a radical political affiliation, one that calls for murder or violence. It is a mainstream political opinion held by roughly half of the country.