If you find yourself looking for inequality in any and all things you might have too much free time on your hands. Scratch that, you definitely have too much free time on your hands. Take for example this tweet from Amanda Kolson Hurley, a blue check we’d honestly never heard of until she claimed that frequent-flyer miles are a tool of inequality.
Admit it, you just made the same face we did when we read it. That face you make when you’re on the treadmill at the gym and for whatever reason, the woman next to you wants to have a lengthy and meaningful conversation with you.
Can't wait to read your book. pic.twitter.com/IOSlEijAEc
— Evan Lips (@evanmlips) August 20, 2018
Let’s break this down, shall we? People who travel a good deal for work are away from their families a lot, not to mention it’s very expensive to fly. So her opinion is airlines and credit card companies who award people with frequent-flyer miles are somehow pushing a sort of inequality … even though these same people have more than earned their miles.
And we hate to break it to her but there is no such thing as a free vacation.
Her perspective on this particular issue seems a bit … skewed. No wonder she deleted it.
And then played the victim.
Never would have guessed the thing that got people baying to “deplatform” me would be [checks notes] my opinion of frequent-flier miles
— Amanda Kolson Hurley (@amandakhurley) August 19, 2018
Nobody is trying to de-platform anyone, many people were just so taken aback by the crazy they had to react.
FF miles, and all other customer rewards programs, serve the purpose of binding customers in commoditized markets with little or no differentiation between contenders.
Suggesting any other purpose is rediculous and calls her motives into question.— Peter Villeroy (@PeterVilleroy) August 20, 2018
Blue check marks are a tool of inequality. https://t.co/zNcc8ekAhL
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) August 19, 2018
Ain’t THAT the truth. Ha!
Tweeting from an iPhone, while sipping on a latte, is a tool of inequality. https://t.co/zNcc8ekAhL
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) August 19, 2018
“Tool for inequality” is Marxist brain vomit. It means “you have more than I do, and it’s all YOUR fault”.
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) August 19, 2018
What he said.
Did we mention she played the victim? A lot?
https://twitter.com/amandakhurley/status/1031158518987063298
Of course, she couldn’t be bothered to actually engage people who disagreed with her and instead labeled them as ‘MAGA Twitter’ as a means to ignore their points and lump them into a vilified, dehumanized group.
In other words, Twitter-inequality. *snicker*
https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1031496851525193728
Is this guy saying only men have frequent-flyer miles?
Oh Lefties, never change.
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