Shot in the Dark

Category: Blue Fragility

  • Complementary Mass Psychoses

    I figured this out the other day. Just as “White Privilege” is really class privilege sanitized for white progressives’ protection… …so, too, is “white fragility” in fact “blue fragility” – the inability of “blue-state” progressives to reconcile their class advantages with their white prog guilt. And both, also, are one sweet bit of grifting, if…

  • Indecency Plus Blue Fragility

    Governor Cuomo’s “Marie Antoinette” moment: The Democrat fielded questions Wednesday while angry protesters outside expressed their displeasure with ongoing shutdown policies. A reporter said she spoke to many of the protesters and found them to be “regular people who are not getting a paycheck.” “Some of them are not getting their unemployment check and they’re…

  • Joe Public Vs. Blue Fragility

    “The Authorities” don’t have much faith in people. They never really have. Before 9/11, it was the official view of “the authorities” that if a major disaster were to unfold in a Manhattan skyscraper, it’d be best to tell the people in the building to stay put and await instructions. They simply couldn’t be trusted…

  • Blue Fragility, Part V

    In which NPR’s On the Media, the exposed, yapping inner id of the “elite” media, #progsplains us that notwithstanding the very plain facts that about half of all Covid deaths are concentrated in one of America and the world’s most densely-populated metro areas, and that 80% are in states centered around major, densely populated metro…

  • Blue Fragility, Part III

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is out at Menards picking up some shop towels for making face masks out of. While looking around a corner, he runs smack-dab into Avery LIBRELLE LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG:   Ah, sssssss….sssshure is nice to see you.  How are you doing, Avery?  LIBRELLE:   You conservatives sure did yuk it up over the Trump…

  • Blue Fragility, Part II

    It’s a steroetype of “blue” America – at least, the “elite” version of it that gets (and makes) the headlines – that liberty, at least the kind that involves something other than waving one’s genitals about and dunking crucifixes in urine – terrifies them. Stereotypes exist for a reason. Blue Amerca’s official vision is that…

  • Blue Fragility

    Like all plagues, Covid19 is a problem everywhere, for everyone. But like most plagues, you need hosts for a plague to spread – and cities are to viruses what a Super Walmart is to humans; vast collections of everything they need to survive. Plagues don’t care about their victims’ politics – but cities are stuffed…

  • Being Evil

    Last year, Google’s collective (heh) culture of Urban Progressive Privilege-sotted virtue-signaling intolerance fell onto Google engineer James Damore for the high crime of out that Google, ironically, has a relentlessly PC, virtue-signaling-focused corporate culture.  Damore was summarily fired. This past week, Damore and his team  filed their lawsuit Damore has now answered Google with a legal…

  • Fighting Racism With Racism

    This piece – “Ten Cracka Commandments“, submitted by “Christopher Driscoll”, ostensibly an African-American professor at Lehigh Universithy, as a suggestion for the rules white people should follow in dealing with race – was making the rounds of the clickbait sites last week. All the usual disclaimers apply; unknown professor (likely trying to make a name, in…

  • Question for Eric Black

    McCain came to town. I didn’t have an invite. But reading the leftymedia’s contortions on the subject is probably almost as much fun anyway. It ranged, as usual, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Or at least from the groaningly obvious and cliche-driven to the moderately interesting. For the former, we turn to former City…