I like this personal essay stemming from the way impressionable young minds were/are taught about, well, certain things. It feels like it accounts for a lot. Of course my minds eye wanted to set it in the 60s or early 70s, giving the adult women giant bouffant hairdos. But the author is younger than me, so I'm guessing the Republican President in office when he was six is the first Bush.
In any case, the pseudonymous Bobby Harlots is one of the few people who both gets and can beautifully articulate one thing, which is that identity politics is really just one game even when it looks like more. The people who painted George Floyd's face on every gaw-damn surface of our big cities and those fetishizing 10/7 don't really have opposing values, or even different methods. They just have different clients.
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You sure would hate to be the child of the second mother who showed up at the first grade class. What a nightmare scenario that was. Worse still was the woman who remembered her summer camp experience where the children were shocked into accepting an ugly lesson about anti-Semites.
Doubtless, there's been history of anti-Semitism in the US. A major propnent was Henry Ford through his widely distributed newsletter The Dearborn Independent. But there are always people who hate other people for little or no reason. The George Floyd thing is a good example - of course, he was anything but a good example of an ordinary man of any color.
Bobby Harlots is also a very sharp observer as I noticed again when I read his article about doxing conservatives. People often have ulterior motives for the beliefs they profess and, as they say, some people just want to watch the world burn.
(ps: I didn't spend much time thinking about pygmys, well, maybe a bit.. they are very small.)
The child of the second mother might well have wanted to disappear into the woodwork. As for the camp, what can one say? Adults always seem to want to impose their twisted way of thinking onto children. Sadly they're often successful in that effort.
The good thing about Henry Ford was that he was interested in his employees having enough disposable income so that they could buy cars. The bad thing about him was pretty much everything else. Antisemitism has been a problem in America (and elsewhere) but those who say they're fighting it have mostly been doing something else. The George Floyd thing just brought home how many people like to playact as revolutionaries. It's a very self-unaware crowd.
There are very narrow circumstances where doxing is appropriate: when someone is making credible threats of violence, for instance. Political opinions don't rise to that level, nor does not liking someone's sense of humor.
Pygmies are interesting because they're small but have generally ordinary proportions.
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