About :45 ago, King tweeted:
Note that Trump’s coronavirus team is all male, all old, and all white.
If that were true (which it's
not: he has at least two women up there, one of which is non-white, and a few people that don't look all that old to me, although I suppose that comes down to how you define "old"), and even if it were relevant to the quality of work being done (which it's
not - you could more easily make the
opposite case, that it's better to have an older group than a younger group to manage crises), why did he look for this
right off the bat during this news conference? Wouldn't you listen to what's being done, then maybe take a few minutes to read a transcript or coverage of the concrete steps coming, and maybe only
after considering the
life-and-death angle, only
then apply the woke identity politics filter? Why did he do that
first?
It may seem to those who agree with King's politics that I live to bash him on this stuff, but I really don't. Up until a few years ago, I regarded most on the other side of the political aisle as well-intentioned people who, by and large, shared my goals of a good, free, prosperous society, but had different priorities for how to get there (some people still fit this description). But in the last few years, left-of-center politics has become a demented pit of bullshit, where it's okay to applaud a train accident because Republicans were on board (remember King's tweet about ol' Russ and his down-home wisdom?), where it's okay to smash someone's head in with a bike lock if you brand them a "Nazi" first, and where socialism is back on the table. King isn't responsible for this social devolution, but it's sad that someone I otherwise admired (for things like saying "find out what they don't want you to read, because that's what you need to know" and he obviously cares for ordinary people) embraces any of this lunacy.
What it comes down to is: feel free to disagree with me - but why be a total fucking nut about it?
Rationality is the new naivete, I guess.