Thread by @ggreenwald

The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-masking-…

While AOC's revolutionary and subversive socialist gown generated buzz, the normalization of maskless elites attended to by faceless servants is grotesque.

At Pelosi's donor lunch, Obama's birthday bash, and last night: workers are moving from figuratively to literally faceless.

Contrary to her jealous critics, AOC was not reveling a Louis XVI court festivity. She was *storming the Bastille*: not with weapons or fire but with the graceful designer elegance of the insurgent Marxist renegade, which made her presence all the more deceptively disruptive.

While AOC's subversive praxis was obviously a watershed moment for working-class politics, the more important lesson is the normalization of forcing servants to be masked while the elites they serve are free: a perfect symbol of the rot of America's cultural Balkanization.

All of this stopped being about The Science™ long ago. But the COVID pandemic has somehow managed to create all new ways to make the enormous chasm between the lives of cultural and political elites and everyone else even larger than it was before.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-masking-…

One final message for @AOC's embittered and envious critics, stewing with jealousy and resentment that she got to go and they didn't.

And it's not just the US. Here's a viral video circulating in Brazil today of some of the richest and most powerful men in Brazil, sitting and talking unmasked, while being waited on by masked servants. How long is this kind of imagery sustainable?

https://twitter.com/BlogdoNoblat/status/1437621467966021632

Never would have guessed that @AOC would announce that anyone questioning her appearance at the Met Gala is motivated by racism, misogyny and various other forms of bigotry. That's so unlike her to do.

She "broke the fourth wall" -- that again -- and forced a bunch of Biden Democrat celebrities and other assorted cultural liberals in attendance to be deeply uncomfortable because she wore a designer gown calling on the the rich be taxed. She did it all for you.✊

Would really love to hear any AOC fans try to justify this repugnant scene. Step right up with all of your best contortions. 🌹🌹✊

https://twitter.com/timcast/status/1437828750029242374?s=21

If you find it disturbing that elites go mask-free while their servants are forced to wear cloth over their face as they carry the train of their designer dress, it probably means you are a white supremacist and/or a misogynist, as AOC said earlier.

https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1437778541433790475