A few excerpts from the August 10th article “Happy Warrior”, by David Harsanyi:
“But if you keep telling people their self-worth is found in victimhood, and outrage is a moral imperative, they might start believing you.”
“Some argue that only the oppressed could possibly understand the pain of these names (speaking of sports teams Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves). Maybe so, but feigned outrage is infectious and irrational.”
“It is not in the impoverished Baltimore inner city, but in the whitest of white Maryland suburbs, that a bunch of historically illiterate students have gathered more than 1000 signatures to rename Winston Churchill High School because of the man’s alleged “crimes against humanity”.”
“It is not the impoverished descendants of cotton-pickers who pressured high-end grocer Trader Joe’s to start changing the names of their ethnic foods – “Trader Jose’s” for Mexican, “Trader Ming’s” for Chinese. It takes a special kind of humorless scold to be offended by cartoonish appreciation of foreign cuisine, and yet here we are.”