Tag: AWFLs

Still from Officer Ross’s cell phone footage. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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The fatal shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month provides an excellent focal point to demonstrate the stark difference between the Left and Right in today’s politics. The primary points of contention here are whether the shooting was justified and whether Ms. Good deserves sympathy. Answering such questions will reveal a lot about a person, and will aid quite handily in determining friends and enemies.

Basically, if you believe the shooting was justified and you are unsympathetic to the fate of the late Ms. Good, then you’re most likely on the Right. If you believe the shooting was unjustified and you sympathize with Ms. Good, then you’re probably on the Left. (more…)

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On August 26, Apple+ released the trailer for an upcoming miniseries called The Savant. From the trailer, it looked like a series about a woman who by day is a soccer mom in an interracial marriage but by night is an antiracist super-spy. She goes into a secret bunker where she logs on to a computer and infiltrates “hate groups” in order to thwart their violent plans. (more…)

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This year, the ideas that I’ve worked so hard to advance have achieved some political success and cultural mainstreaming. Otherwise, it was a year of helping several important people in my life through difficult health problems. My older relatives have slowed down. I really felt I was rushing from one crisis to the next. (more…)

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The internet can’t stop hating on Karens. These middle-aged white women continue to cause problems for America and are hated by both the Left and the Right. The Left claims they’re white women who weaponize their privilege to oppress minorities. The Right ignores the racial angle and says they’re just annoying tattle-tales. (more…)

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The “Karen” meme has quickly spread like wildfire across Twitter. It’s a more easily referenced offshoot of the previously unnamed “I would like to speak to the manager” joke that was more broadly associated with tannie haircuts and Ray-Bans than anything else. Now that there’s a name for it, it’s easier to crack a joke, especially at the expense of those who seem to embody the trope’s worst attributes. (more…)

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Affluent white female liberals (AWFLs) suffered their own personal 9/11 last week. Their queen Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. (more…)

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Nothing humiliates the British royal family more than an American divorcee.

King Edward VIII gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson in 1936. Now Edward’s great-great nephew, Prince Harry, is resigning from the royal family to please his wife, Meghan Markle, a previously-divorced mulatto actress. (more…)