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As we conclude a year where the news never stopped breaking, we are happy to welcome back Kurt Schlichter, one of the most prolific writers today. As a columnist at
Every time I’ve seen Max Boot over the last year he’s been mad enough to spit nails. At Trump voters, or anyone else who doesn’t agree with his anger. This strikes me as having limited utility if you trying to convince conservatives of your position.
He’s embarrassing himself.
I must suffer from oppression too, because I wouldn’t do something that stupid either. Apparently only Max Boot would. Maybe he suffers from Max Boot Privilege.
Whether they would suspect me now doesn’t change the fact that for years they would have, and that I therefore would also never do something like that. I used to get followed around by clerks, because I didn’t look like I had any money. It’s not black or white, it’s green. The same is true for most of the other examples of ‘white privilege’ I hear about. There’s a distortion of what being white gets you.
But he and several others have real anger problems, and it is blinding them to how that level of vitriol and opprobrium is going to be perceived. They would do well to study people like Milton Friedman, who could twist the knife with a chuckle.
Ahh, the operative word there is ‘study’. Some of these kids have become indoctrinated to think they are ‘privileged’ and now feel that’s the only education they need. Oh.. and gender studies.
Resume crossed my desk this week for an entry-level position. No joke: “Master Of Arts In Gender, Women And Development Studies”. She’s not gonna be paying back her 6 years worth of student loans working here.
What Dave said about Dick Cavett a million times. We had no idea how good we had it with him in the media and entertainment.