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| 2016-12-24 |
| [NYPOST] The last few years, we’ve seen the creation of safe spaces, though they’re usually for protecting fragile leftists from disagreeable thoughts and arguments. Lunatic men badgering women on planes in front of their kids apparently is fair play -- if that mother is related to a Republican you don’t like. The irony, of course, is that Ivanka Trump is someone liberals should be thankful to have in the incoming president’s inner circle. She’s certainly no partisan right-winger, and in fact has thus far during the transition been taking point on issues like climate change (she even met with Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore) and paid family leave. Why the rage at her? The Trump hate has gone around the bend when the family of the president-elect is gleefully harassed. The buzzword following Trump’s victory has been "normalization" -- as if simply by pretending he isn’t president, then he won’t be. Katy Waldman had a piece in Slate on Wednesday noting that media, charged with covering the incoming administration, is doing its best on that front: "Wary of ’normalizing’ the president-elect, yet condemned to document the perturbingly normal processes by which he is coming into power, journalists seem to have gone into full dissociative mode." This disassociation isn’t convincing the millions of Americans who voted for Trump that he’s any less legitimate. It hasn’t taken away any of the president’s power, or changed one of his policies. It’s just made liberals look more rude and out of touch. The left is trying to turn the whole country into a liberal safe space -- safe for them, dangerous for anyone who disagrees with them. They’ve lost their minds. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 IMO, that's the best case scenario, P2k. Because the alternative, they lay low for a few years - while you play nice, when go back into business. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-12-24 08:51 |
| #3 "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other". - Abraham Lincoln Socialism is slavery as the plantation system writ large. We're about to enter the Bleeding Kansas period. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-12-24 08:29 |
| #2 You just can't play nice with these people, can you? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-12-24 03:28 |
| #1 The last few years, we’ve seen the creation of safe spaces, though they’re usually for protecting fragile leftists from disagreeable thoughts and arguments . . . before that insidious force called logic has a chance to take hold. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-12-24 00:45 |