[Since all the Powerliners are lately uniformly, exclusively, writing about trivial matters, and imagined slights… all to avoid discussing their candidate’s likely pending felony indictment… we will play along, and dutifully point out the tortured illogic of even their trivial complaints.]
To oblige, then — Elizabeth Stauffer is now daily showing herself as not much of a rational thinker.
This morning’s installment in “useless Stauffer nonsense” finds her complaining about an admittedly left editorialist who uses the name Touré. Stauffer feels she (and she alone) has the right to tell everyone what may — and may not — be considered… a slur.
Touré asserts that “woke” is a slur, when and as used by the frothy hard right to capture all “others” — and do so in a pejorative way, that has nothing to do with their views. With that last bit, I disagree. But I support her right to say that the word/term — as applied to vast swaths of varying views, as a smear… is a slur, and offensive. Whether I see it that way, is of no moment. Those are Touré’s views. And I support her right to offer them. She makes no exhortation of violence against anyone, based on it.
[Consider how, for one obvious example, it might not be okay to call a Black man you do not know very well… “boy” — or a Black woman you do not know — and know well — “grrl”. But calling your family by marriage that (ppl you’ve known for many decades — whyte or Black)… might be understood to be a term of endearment.]
That of course, is in stark contrast to the words used by Stauffer (who yesterday directly called for “burning the FBI to the ground” — as she attacked what she felt was Mr. Biden’s imprecise speechifying, in California). [Hard to see how “burn ’em down” would ever be… endearing, Bitsy.]
But the central point is that Betsy feels it her place to tell us all what we may or may not say, in the very same breath as someone telling her that what SHE said… was offensive.
And she cannot see how she IS… the very thing she purports to rail against.
Like I said — rational thought is not her long suit.
Out.
