WHY WOULD RIGHT-WINGERS MAKE FUN OF ENSLAVED NIGERIAN SCHOOLGIRLS?

It is not that conservative/right-wing media-types in New York or, for that matter, right-winger voter-types in my own neighborhood ever got on board with what became a social media-fueled worldwide movement to bring attention to the plight of the nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped and sold into slavery by the pathological terrorist group Boko Haram.

They didn't.

But not caring anything about these young women doesn't give one social license to make fun of those who do.

Yet, the right-wing blogosphere, the right-wing media and right-wing politicians wasted little time making the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls the target of their hostile snark.  Worse, they wasted little time making fun of the girls themselves.

As soon as Michelle Obama tweeted a picture of herself holding a sign with the hashtag printed on it, even those GOP/Tea Party-types sedated by large amounts of Thorazine began "wailing," "gnashing their teeth"---only biblical words/phrases can sufficiently describe their agony---and making oddly indecent comments about these young women taken from home and hearth and given a one-way ticket to hell itself.  Equally disconcerting was the sarcasm and dismissiveness directed toward those guilty only of supporting efforts to return them to their families. 

Jim Hoft is a right-wing blogger who, despite an abundance of well-publicized written/spoken gaffes, a long history of being called out for trying to pass fiction as fact and a reputation for gross incompetence, is, not surprisingly, a favorite guest of FOX News.

When it was first reported that the schoolgirls had been spirited out of Nigeria and several of them already sold into marriage or into the world-wide sex-trade, Hoft began his workday by merrily tweeting this: #BringBackOurBalls~~Sorry, Libs, The Schoolgirls have Already Been Sold, Put on Canoes & Shipped to Chad.

Later, he mocked the First Lady for tweeting the aforementioned picture of herself holding the sign with the by-then-viral hashtag #BringBackOurGirls on it.  In response to Ms. Obama, one of the most genuine, authentic and visionary First Ladies to ever grace the White House, Hoft tweeted this:  So good luck bringing "our girls" back. You're too late.

From what does such indecency and offensiveness derive?

Joining Hoft in mocking Michelle Obama and others using social media to bring attention to what has become a horrific horror show in Nigeria were such Republican/Tea Party/Christian Right(!)/Libertarian(?) luminaries as George Will, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin.

Hence, my question: Why would conservatives---i.e., Republicans, Tea Partiers, Christian Evangelicals, etc.---make fun of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls who were being sold into enslaving marriages or to agents of the international sex-trade?Why would they make fun of people like Michelle Obama who genuinely care about these girls and this issue---albeit from a distance---and are simply trying to draw attention to an emerging humanitarian problem through the use of social media?

Of course, there is a better way to phrase that question: What is wrong with conservatives---i.e., Republicans, Tea Partiers, Christian Evangelicals, Militia-Types, etc---that they would make fun of these girls and mock the efforts of those who care about them?

I mean, there has to be something fundamentally broken in people who make fun of young girls who are kidnapped---taken away from everything they have ever known and knowing they will never return---and sold into slavery.  There has to be something fundamentally broken in people who make fun of those who care about these little girls and are just doing what they can to help.  

In the words of my innumerable cousins who hail from the rural South Carolina semi-metropolis of Ehrhardt, "They ain't right!"

And, my cousins are right.  These people "ain't right!" 

But, for the life of me, I can't figure out what made them, well, so much "not right."