The basic problem Twitter has that anybody can spew any nonsense they can imagine & it get published. Worldwide. Back in the old days, not that many people got to see whatever nonsense you decided to carve into a tree or a park bench.
When people don't know anything but insist on opining about it anyway, they fill in the blanks from the cupboard of their imagination. Talk to his mother, talk to his father, talk to the teachers he's had over the years down there in Broward County,Florida and you'll get an idea of what prejudices he's imbibed, and, more importantly, an idea of how he was taught to respond to challenges of various sorts.
Or he bought some weed on sale. One or the other. ;-)
That just removes some inhibitions. My high school art teacher had poster of aphorisms behind her desk. One was, 'things said while drunk have been thought out beforehand'.
One amusing thing about Hoggy is that he was admitted to Harvard even though his combined board score (on today's scale, not the one we were scored on) was about 200 points too low for someone of his color. A federal judge has just ruled that the civil rights laws do not apply to Harvard and they're free to exclude people the admissions officers deem to have 'bad personalities' (ie slants). They use the slots thus freed to make a space for the usual Mascots and also...David Hogg. A large meteor cannot fall on the place too soon.
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The basic problem Twitter has that anybody can spew any nonsense they can imagine & it get published. Worldwide. Back in the old days, not that many people got to see whatever nonsense you decided to carve into a tree or a park bench.
When people don't know anything but insist on opining about it anyway, they fill in the blanks from the cupboard of their imagination. Talk to his mother, talk to his father, talk to the teachers he's had over the years down there in Broward County,Florida and you'll get an idea of what prejudices he's imbibed, and, more importantly, an idea of how he was taught to respond to challenges of various sorts.
Or he bought some weed on sale. One or the other. ;-)
Weed at Harvard was my first guess.
Or he bought some weed on sale. One or the other. ;-)
That just removes some inhibitions. My high school art teacher had poster of aphorisms behind her desk. One was, 'things said while drunk have been thought out beforehand'.
One amusing thing about Hoggy is that he was admitted to Harvard even though his combined board score (on today's scale, not the one we were scored on) was about 200 points too low for someone of his color. A federal judge has just ruled that the civil rights laws do not apply to Harvard and they're free to exclude people the admissions officers deem to have 'bad personalities' (ie slants). They use the slots thus freed to make a space for the usual Mascots and also...David Hogg. A large meteor cannot fall on the place too soon.
But you have to like the East Coast lesbian look he's rocking these days.
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