People are always looking for something to hate on. If this is something for them to target and hate on, that's their thing. I look at it as satire.
He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.