Kevin Drum talks about his fellow progressives in the context of the rather rude remarks delivered by Michelle Wolf at the White House Correspondents dinner:
I’ll skip over whether this was funny. It depends on your taste in comics, I suppose. And Wolf is right: Sanders really does lie a lot. A lot. So I can’t say that I personally care if she was offended. Plenty of people, however, thought Wolf’s bit was really rude, and the liberal response has generally been: Have you heard what Donald Trump says??? That’s a thousand times worse!
This is what gets me about my fellow lefties sometimes. Are we really this clueless about how most human beings react to stuff like this? Namely that normal human beings draw a big distinction between saying mean things generally at a rally and saying mean things aimed at a specific person in that person’s presence.
That’s not so hard, is it? Why do we pretend not to know it? We do this an awful lot, too. Maybe we need to get out more.
I’ve talked about this before, but it bears repeating for any progressives who happen to be readers of this blog: figure out a better communications style. Scorn is fairly described as kindergarten level. Maybe try a little sympathy once in a while.
It’s what makes The Daily Kos so hard to read.
