George Zimmerman repeatedly has been arrested for domestic violence against multiple different women. George Zimmerman was arrested for physically assaulting a police officer. George Zimmerman was arrested for the killing of unarmed seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman was fired from his job as a security guard because he had a bad temper, occasionally flew into a violent rage and was deemed a liability to the company. This is not coincidence. These are not lies perpetuated by the supposedly liberal media. This is not a massive conspiracy to frame George Zimmerman. Instead, these are facts.
The reality of the situation: George Zimmerman is an abject failure as a man and a complete loser. George Zimmerman has amounted to nothing of significance and done absolutely nothing with his life and likes to make himself feel better by beating women, pretending to be a police officer, walking around town with his gun and standing his ground. That makes him feel like a big, tough, brute man.
And because of racism, pro gun hysteria, Fox News, and a society in which being an idiot know-nothing is treated as a virtue, George Zimmerman has become a hero to a bunch of people who are (1) racist (no, really, you are) (2) gun-obsessed or (3) just delusional and stupid.
Because of the letter of Florida law, George Zimmerman was legally acquitted. But that acquittal on technical, legal grounds has been transformed by the racists, pro-gun zealots and Fox News idiots into a full-out endorsement of George Zimmerman the man, George Zimmerman the hero.
This, America, is who and what you glorify. This, America, is the emblem of your masculine identity. Because popular culture in America has long conflated all of these different elements and masculinity: guns, power, freedom, violence, manhood. And George Zimmerman stands at the pinnacle of this absurd conflation.