This has easily been the worst thing I've seen this week (other than the disaster itself, of course). The way that I've seen so many centre-left urbanites talk

This has easily been the worst thing I've seen this week (other than the disaster itself, of course). The way that I've seen so many centre-left urbanites talk about people in "red states" is outright genocidal at times - how could any sane person see someone with differing political opinions lacking power, water, or heat and think, "Yes, punishment!"? Somehow it never crosses their minds that if there are people in the South committing various wrongdoings (racism, voter suppression, draconian criminal justice system, etc), there are even more people in the South suffering from these wrongdoings.