I used to follow Ken White on Popehat Twitter, and when he left I signed up for his newsletter. This was one was Pope-alicious. When the FedSoc decided to invite Kyle Duncan to poke their fellow students in the eye, it's too bad Admiral Akbar wasn't there screaming 'It's a trap!!' Maybe then, the Stanford law students could have staged a…
I used to follow Ken White on Popehat Twitter, and when he left I signed up for his newsletter. This was one was Pope-alicious. When the FedSoc decided to invite Kyle Duncan to poke their fellow students in the eye, it's too bad Admiral Akbar wasn't there screaming 'It's a trap!!' Maybe then, the Stanford law students could have staged an equal and opposite smackdown instead of walking into a wall.
I realize that most on here have decades of experience, but man, Stanford Law students aren't bright enough to realize it is a trap without Admiral Akbar?
I suspect that they're bright enough to realize it and arrogant enough to think that being the hero of their own story over-rides it. Or arrogant enough to believe that this speaker was just sooooo vile as to justify jettisoning both respect for their university's institutions and the belief that they would make THE difference.
I'm stunned that nobody pulled a bunch of them aside and said, 'think like lawyers!!!'. It's clear the FedSoc set this thing up to provoke precisely the reaction they got. I just wish some of these best and brightest had been smart enough to put their emotions aside and engage on the issues. Duncan would not have been expecting that.
Unfortunately, an Agra-welfare (subsidy) recipient here in West Lafayette, IN flys a Confederate flag in his yard, not two miles from Civil War cemetery on Vet's Home property.
Not much makes more more casually mad than the sight of one of those traitorous flags (apart from war memorials, re-enactments, etc.). Still their right to do, but I'm definitely lumping any who fly that flag (or put it on their truck) into my own basket of deplorables.
It's amazing how the lack of historical context among too many of the MAGAt boobwazie pushes them to seek some symbol of their victimization, in this case the Confederate Battle flag.
My grandfather, the scion of one of the founding families of what is now Birmingham, Alabama, left in 1910 for NYC to become a magazine writer/editor after college.
Other than an uncle who moved to Texas (west Alabama) pre-Civil War, he was the only family member to leave the Lilly White culture of "Woodlawn" (still a section of "B-ham" today) because his education made him think and research about the Jim Crow South.
The irony was that because of his deep Southern drawl, he was chided and ridiculed by his New "Yawk" colleagues. So, he found greater comfort living in Harlem/Morningside Heights in upper Manhattan, then a center of middle-class Blacks.
I just can't get past the concept of using a traitor flag for anything. Use the Don't Tread on Me flag if you want to quietly convey to the world that you are most likely a believer in freedom for me, not for thee.
I used to follow Ken White on Popehat Twitter, and when he left I signed up for his newsletter. This was one was Pope-alicious. When the FedSoc decided to invite Kyle Duncan to poke their fellow students in the eye, it's too bad Admiral Akbar wasn't there screaming 'It's a trap!!' Maybe then, the Stanford law students could have staged an equal and opposite smackdown instead of walking into a wall.
I realize that most on here have decades of experience, but man, Stanford Law students aren't bright enough to realize it is a trap without Admiral Akbar?
I suspect that they're bright enough to realize it and arrogant enough to think that being the hero of their own story over-rides it. Or arrogant enough to believe that this speaker was just sooooo vile as to justify jettisoning both respect for their university's institutions and the belief that they would make THE difference.
One would think. But emotional impulse is a hard thing to corral.
Good thing they aren't training to be lawyers in court.
Well said!!!
I'm stunned that nobody pulled a bunch of them aside and said, 'think like lawyers!!!'. It's clear the FedSoc set this thing up to provoke precisely the reaction they got. I just wish some of these best and brightest had been smart enough to put their emotions aside and engage on the issues. Duncan would not have been expecting that.
Or just not attend? Were they obligated to give him their attention?
Don't doubt you for a second, but I don't run across too many here in the heartland.
Unfortunately, an Agra-welfare (subsidy) recipient here in West Lafayette, IN flys a Confederate flag in his yard, not two miles from Civil War cemetery on Vet's Home property.
Not the kind of farmer he meant. Took me a few seconds to connect the dots since I'm not exposed to the term very often.
Thanks for putting me in the know-how.
That "farmer" near me is infuriating for the disrepect to the hundreds of graves of fallen heros...and also of subsequent military actions.
Not much makes more more casually mad than the sight of one of those traitorous flags (apart from war memorials, re-enactments, etc.). Still their right to do, but I'm definitely lumping any who fly that flag (or put it on their truck) into my own basket of deplorables.
It's amazing how the lack of historical context among too many of the MAGAt boobwazie pushes them to seek some symbol of their victimization, in this case the Confederate Battle flag.
My grandfather, the scion of one of the founding families of what is now Birmingham, Alabama, left in 1910 for NYC to become a magazine writer/editor after college.
Other than an uncle who moved to Texas (west Alabama) pre-Civil War, he was the only family member to leave the Lilly White culture of "Woodlawn" (still a section of "B-ham" today) because his education made him think and research about the Jim Crow South.
The irony was that because of his deep Southern drawl, he was chided and ridiculed by his New "Yawk" colleagues. So, he found greater comfort living in Harlem/Morningside Heights in upper Manhattan, then a center of middle-class Blacks.
I just can't get past the concept of using a traitor flag for anything. Use the Don't Tread on Me flag if you want to quietly convey to the world that you are most likely a believer in freedom for me, not for thee.