I'm a New Yorker, and New Yorkers tell it like it is... we just don't have the time to be doormats for people who we think suck manatee balls. Therefore, it's no surprise the anti-LGBTQ politica Nikki Haley was booed in a New York City restaurant on Pride Day. Fuck, lady, if you want an insincere show of what passes for 'politeness', you came to the wrong town... you can't live in a bubble in this city, life is lived too publicly for that shit.
There may be hope for Haley, after all, she did condemn LGBTQ purges in Chechnya. Of course, she has no control over Chechnyan policies, and in the places and times in which she did have control over policies regarding LGBTQ people, she didn't exactly cover herself in glory.
At any rate, don't expect people in NYC to be doormats, especially if you are a hypocrite who thinks that 'political correctness' is a problem, but when when bigots are taken to the woodshed. We New Yorkers don't tolerate assholes, and we don't care who we upset when we call out assholes for censure... after all, in this place, "fuck, fuckin' fucker's fuckin' fucked" is a perfectly grammatical sentence.
well..... how about that?
ReplyDeleteFor better or for worse, in the Trump era the rules have changed, and politics (and political ideology/tribal identity) is now a full contact sport. You stake out a position, and people on 'the other side' just open up the Karl Rove playbook, loudly shouting, shaming and smearing.
ReplyDeleteThere IS no 'civility', there is no compromise, there is no conversation. There are positions and counter-positions. There is no governance, there is spite and spittle. There is no honor, there are no statesmen, there is only this weird civil cold war, where we aren't killing each other (yet), but the hatred and hostility is all the way out there for all to see...
I think people are too lazy for this cold Civil War to heat up- why risk getting shot if you can just tweet out dank memes?
ReplyDeleteThis is true, i have been to new york and i have experienced some of this.
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