I’ve been wrestling with the notion of weighing in on what I am sarcastically calling the “Covington Catholic clusterfuck,” but I really don’t have any hot take on it that isn’t actively plagiarizing other people’s intellectual labor and insights. Here’s a few links and random thoughts:
- On why that unedited video doesn’t actually exonerate these teenage racists: WokeSloth and Twitter.
- On the general foolishness of chanting “build that wall” at someone whose ancestors were here LONG before yours.*
- And here’s an extra thought (freely lifted from a friend FB page): would this whole sorry confrontation have been de-escalated earlier if there had been been more NPS Rangers on hand, rather than them being so short-staffed on account of the shut-down?
And that’s all I care to say about that tonight.
So, in lieu of socio-cultural commentary, what focus am I going to use for an MLK Day post?
Books, of course.
