Linton's Clueless Post has a dark side.

[pepperbear]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/22/opinions/linton-hypocrisy-by-gop-filipovic-opinion/index.html


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The right passed up the opportunity to side with someone who represents the working and middle class that Donald Trump's campaign supposedly championed against the arrogance of the entitled rich. Instead this encounter is another piece of evidence that we can now put a bullet in the idea that most people who voted for Donald Trump did so because of economic insecurity; for many, it's clearly about a more complex, ugly form of political and racial tribalism.

The response from the right (or lack thereof) to Linton's outburst is more evidence that the 2016 election wasn't just about white working-class voters feeling unrepresented by out-of-touch elites. It was also about a group of Americans who don't care one iota about character or honesty or even reality, but do care about sticking it to liberals and creating chaos for fun -- because liberals, and the people increasingly benefiting from the changing political order, are women and people of color.

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This is a good read.

[msongs]

1. time to stop giving these trips and bennies to family members. employee only nt

[JNelson6563]

2. Let them eat cake!

I now better understand why the French also obliterated the aristocracy, not just the royal family. I don't necessarily condone it but i do understand it now.

[underpants]

3. Trophy wife said what?

[pepperbear]

4. Edited to add text

[madaboutharry]

5. As for her book, she is writing about something 18 years in the past.

She was in Zambia when she was 18 and she is now 36. So unless she kept copious journals, she is relying on memories from half a life time ago. She obviously made up a bunch of things out of thin air and molded her narrative after reading stuff on the internet.

The purpose of her book was for her to be able to see herself as a good person and bring positive attention to herself. When something is a fraud it has the opposite effect.

Mrs. Mnuchin is a deplorable in $900 shoes.

[pepperbear]

6. But, Oh! What to-die- for shoes!

[jalan48]

7. Is she part of the fill after the swamp draining?

[kcr]

8. IT started out a good read

But she had this journalistic tic that is all too common nowadays that drives me crazy. They always have to find a both-sides angle and it comes off forced and artificial. I don't know if they're pressured to or if this pounded into them in J-school, but I can't stand it.

"To be clear, Linton is not an elected official, and how she spends her money is her own business, whether it's on Birkin bags and Valentino heels or perhaps copies of her own bizarrely self-aggrandizing book, which peddles racist clichés about Africa and has been thoroughly discredited.
There is also something particularly sexist about the vitriol aimed at women who wear pricey clothing, since that outrage is rarely leveled at men who have closets full of $10,000 suits."

That clarity was entirely unnecessary since it didn't address any of the criticisisms. Unless one is only supposed to ever address or criticize elected officials, and nothing anyone else ever does or says is anyone else's business, ever, even if they publicly tweet it. I'm sorry. It's just a huge pet peeve of mine. It's an opinion piece, for crying out loud. That was totally unnecessary.