Monday, April 20, 2020

Noblesse oblige

1. Pampered Hollywood celebrities like Patton Oswalt have no idea how comments like this come across to average people. Celebrities are too disconnected from reality. They've evidently forgotten (if they ever knew) what it's like to be an average person. Oswalt sounds more like Marie Antoinette telling peasants: "Let them eat cake!"

2. An obvious issue is many people can't afford Netflix, video games, and getting food delivered to them if they don't have a job.

3. As far as "risking viral death". In fact, some or many people would be willing to risk their own health in order to provide for their families. I'm not suggesting people in general should risk their health or their lives, but it's certainly not something Oswalt should so readily disdain and dismiss.

4. That said, I think it might be prudent if protesters took a lesson from Hollywood by ensuring their protests have good optics. Not to give media any fodder to depict protesters as an angry or unruly mob or somesuch. For example, keep a safe distance from other protesters while protesting, wear a surgical mask, etc.

5. Another recent example is Nancy Pelosi's "let them eat ice cream" moment:

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  1. I agree with you that they should try to make their protests have good optics, but I don't know that the media and such people as the Twitterer will *let* them have good optics. That is, no matter how careful they are, they'll find something nasty to say.

    Tweets like that one make me crazy. Furious.

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    1. Oh yeah, that's sadly true. I think they'd try to spin it as negatively as possible no matter what. But I guess my hope is that even if they do, most people who see the videos will be able to tell that this is spin rather than truth. Maybe it's a vain hope though!

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  2. Some smart congressional rep ought to start a #NancyPolosiFreezerChallenge and start posting pics of their freezers at home.

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    1. Lol! :) By the way, here's an ad I just came across:

      http://twitter.com/parscale/status/1252369647338319878

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