I would not want to be this young woman. By now, five months after the event she attended at the University of Massachusetts Amherst featuring a discussion with Christina Hoff Sommers, Steven Crowder, and Milo Yiannopoulos on the problems besetting university campuses with speech considered "triggering," she has become a favorite meme among those who see such concerns as at best mildly hysterical, at worst a symptom of the total breakdown of our national character (I paraphrase). Audiences at several of Milo's recent talks (which you can see here ) have made reference to her, imitating her arm gestures (which I am having a hard time ignoring on the gif as I am writing) and laughing at her expense. Milo, to his credit, has admonished them: "No, we love Trigglypuff! Trigglypuff is wonderful!," while insisting that it is not she, but those who have lied to her about what will make her happy that are to blame. "She is going to be miserable," he has said (a...
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DeleteI'm curious if you are still pro-Mitt in light of his now infamous remarks on the 47%?
ReplyDeleteAh, well. The problem is that I very much do not want to vote for my neighbor anymore. I am disappointed in the way Mitt has been handling things during the campaign, but I no longer have any hope (faith, trust) in his opponent.
DeleteI can certainly see why one would be disillusioned with Obama. What I can't see is how Romney is better. It seems like a choice between "not great" and "worse still"--in which case, I'm inclined to choose "not great."
ReplyDeleteMe, too. We just disagree on which is "not great"! Actually, I think Ryan is probably better, but that is a longer conversation and I am still at the learning stage on much of this.
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