These first two comments show that conservatives can be just as guilty of cancel culture as the progressives. It’s obvious that the author’s ‘glibness’, use of the word ‘docile’ and comments about subtraction are tongue-in-cheek. He doesn’t disparage either type of young person, midwestern conservative or northeastern progressive. He jus…
These first two comments show that conservatives can be just as guilty of cancel culture as the progressives. It’s obvious that the author’s ‘glibness’, use of the word ‘docile’ and comments about subtraction are tongue-in-cheek. He doesn’t disparage either type of young person, midwestern conservative or northeastern progressive. He just wonders at the absurdity of their fixed positions. I do too. I’m an American who’s lived the last 30 years in Europe. I look across the ocean at the country I love and shake my head at its absurd, indulgent, self-defeating and frankly stupid cultural wars. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot when in 1990 the country was poised to show the way to the world on any number of fronts. I love all of the crazy extremes of the US and all the in-betweens and don’t understand why Americans don’t. I went to Harvard (medical school not college) but my parents are Baptists from South Carolina who’ve always vote Republican. I love both extremes. I studied theology in the Midwest (before becoming a doctor) and then worked in Silicon Valley in the early 90s. Both extremes are wonderful and enriching. Why can’t my fellow Americans see that?
These first two comments show that conservatives can be just as guilty of cancel culture as the progressives. It’s obvious that the author’s ‘glibness’, use of the word ‘docile’ and comments about subtraction are tongue-in-cheek. He doesn’t disparage either type of young person, midwestern conservative or northeastern progressive. He just wonders at the absurdity of their fixed positions. I do too. I’m an American who’s lived the last 30 years in Europe. I look across the ocean at the country I love and shake my head at its absurd, indulgent, self-defeating and frankly stupid cultural wars. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot when in 1990 the country was poised to show the way to the world on any number of fronts. I love all of the crazy extremes of the US and all the in-betweens and don’t understand why Americans don’t. I went to Harvard (medical school not college) but my parents are Baptists from South Carolina who’ve always vote Republican. I love both extremes. I studied theology in the Midwest (before becoming a doctor) and then worked in Silicon Valley in the early 90s. Both extremes are wonderful and enriching. Why can’t my fellow Americans see that?