Good ol’ dependably crappy WaPo.
Opinion: The Republican Party has latched onto "woke" — because it has nothing else https://t.co/b5Dk8wwvKV
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 6, 2021
Huh?
We suppose ‘latch’ is better than seize or pounce.
Ok, it’s not.
Talk about an unoriginal boring pile of biased garbage.
Democrats: "There are 437 genders and the moon is made of toe jam."
Republicans: "WHAT??!?"
Media: "Republicans pounce!"
— Amazon Post- Democracy Dies of breakthrough COVID (@dying_democracy) May 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/philllosoraptor/status/1390339589508763654?s=20
Drew Holden was good enough to do what he does best and put together a fairly merciless thread humiliating WaPo.
This is pretty good:
This is the sort of take, dripping with condescension, that serves as a reminder that lots of columnists don't spend time outside of their political bubbles.
The focus on "wokeness" is so prevalant because it resonates with everyday Americans. People, broadly, think it's bs. https://t.co/AFzl2sJuWU
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
Dripping with condescenion.
Bingo.
These media types think they are so much smarter and better than the rest of us … and they wonder why fewer and fewer people read them.
I wrote about the phenomena a while back: https://t.co/qV4ZGl8a9y
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
This is what WaPo opinion has become: "…it is now the term for tagging Democrats. It’s like calling them ugly. Or stupid. Or uncultured. Of course, once the GOP and its largely White-male membership co-opts a popular term, one may presume its cultural power is about to fade."
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
Largely white-male membership … lol.
Are these the same people who were trashing a Black Republican just last week?
Not only is it dumb and insulting – in a lowbrow sort of way – but it also just isn't true, as NYT reported just this week: https://t.co/e0Nd3TnRyr
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
Oopsie.
@PostOpinions's commentary on the current GOP is essentially Parker, Max Boot, and Jen Rubin sneering about how terrible the party has become and how the party's death is right around the corner.
It's hard to overstate how insular and foolish this perspective is.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
They want us to believe Republicans can’t survive without our ‘betters’ like Rubin telling us all what to think. And sadly, they’re too full of themselves to realize we’re all just laughing at them.
I could share a zillion stories about why the GOP is ascendant (and have been meaning to write about it, maybe WaPo will be interested!) but here's just a few:https://t.co/FZtWGPROHkhttps://t.co/yP0JSLZNBahttps://t.co/0Gg0uV5b5ehttps://t.co/PaMiwzEhbU
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
but the sort of haughty, ivory tower, insular takes that @PostOpinions keeps churning out are precisely what you would expect when the only voices are left-leaning (out of either belief or necessesity). its a disservice to their readership.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 6, 2021
Disservice to their readership is a nice way of saying he wouldn’t line the bottom of a litterbox with it.
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