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Yesterday, I had lunch with one of my favorite graduate students. She's from Belarus, a Russian puppet government, and her parents grew up in the Soviet Union. During the conversation, she told me how her romantic vision of America has been crushed since coming here in 2019. She said during COVID she felt grateful to have a Belarus passport because Belarus had passed a law banning vaccine mandates, so if New York's COVID authoritarianism had become intolerable, she could have fled home. Also, growing up she had always seen America as the haven for free speech, but has been shocked at how the propagandists (her word) in charge of institutions (like our college) apply censorship pressure not through the state but through social penalties. What really threw me, however, is what happened when the trans topic came up. Before she shared her opinion, she slowly looked over her right shoulder, then looked over her left shoulder, to make sure nobody was within earshot. I will never forget this image. A Russian woman felt so nervous speaking her mind in an American restaurant that she had to check her surroundings to see if anyone was listening. How the hell did we get here?
The communist kids in my replies are saying things like “She SHOULD be looking over her shoulder if she’s using hate speech.”
It’ll bet a thousand dollars that they have nose piercings, purple hair, Antifa masks, and round sexless bodies.
It’ll bet a thousand dollars that they have nose piercings, purple hair, Antifa masks, and round sexless bodies.
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