24% of the apparent murderer’s HS classmates in Georgia identify as people of color. Why weren’t they asked about the his character?
They might not have seen his passion for guns & God as evidence he was a “nerd.” To them he might have seemed like a “murderer.”
Ditto women who knew him from his porn and massage haunts. The ones he murdered.
I’ve crossed the street to avoid men who look like Brett Kavanaugh & this guy for decades bc on the data they’re the only ones who have ever attacked me.
As long as it’s same-race same-sex cops & classmates who decide who’s dangerous & who’s a good Christian, we’re in trouble.
Thanks to @MythiliSk for helping me articulate this.
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Nabokov’s best & creepiest con with Lolita (1955) was to make gruesome Humbert Humbert aspirational for provincial American men like Epstein & Allen. thedailybeast.com/inside-woody-a…
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
Humbert signals at every turn that he’s nothing more than a depraved child rapist. But he’s also “a bronzed glamor boy.”
And the hotness, French phrases & prose tricks make American male readers swoon.
In 1934, Fitzgerald had written another child rapist in Tender is the Night. He was rich but broken & hateful. He was the villain of the book & he knew it.
Nicole Diver’s father:
I’m no Dr. Seuss. But if the right is worried about censorship they should speak out about the ceaseless campaigns against journalists that start at Fox News.
Like this one.
Sidebar: Not including this person’s IG handle because the last time I screenshot the whole thing, the guy —who signed his trolling white-power email with his phone #—called my employer in hysterics & said he was the victim because he’d been doxed. Then he called the cops on me.
This is how it goes. Starts with Gateway Pundit, hits Tucker, goes to the usual online clearinghouses, and then you’re getting hourly death & rape threats. For weeks.
Saying you’re going to “wait your turn” does little more than signal virtue.
If you want to help with the human goal of 70%-100% vaccination, please start booking appointments for eligible people & helping them get to those appointments.
I promise you the 1957 "Howl" obscenity case has lessons for how to adjudicate 2021 cancelations.
1. Words have no fixed meaning. California v. Ferlinghetti contains this fr/Oliver W Holmes:
"A word is not a crystal, transparent & unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought & may vary greatly in color & content acc. to the circumstances & the time in which it is used."