Alexandria Ocasio Cortez responding to Paul Gosar and his anime refitting for a violent scene where he is the hero beating up and killing Cortez and assorted Democrats as the Anime’s refitted villains —

“White supremacy is for extremely fragile people & sad men like him, whose self concept relies on the myth that he was born superior because deep down he knows he couldn’t open a pickle jar or read a whole book by himself.” 

The insult is a tad off-kilter. The “can’t read a book” line is okay and meaningful, but the pickle jar opening is wrong. I am tempted to go “woke” and charge AOC as being “ableist”, but even that is beside the point. It does not take any intelligence to open a pickle jar. It takes physical strength, and it is not hard to picture — or maybe identify — particularly in the gentrocracy we have here in Washington — some less than physically imposing competent congress critters who have difficulty opening that pickle jar. Hell — we have all been there, having to open that pickle jar and not being able to do so. You then have to bang the jar lid on the counter to dent the opening a tad — sometimes to good effect, occasionally not. All very Irrelevant. Why is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez humanizing Paul Gosar there?

Other mis-fires and imprecisions… I trip over the line on the recent Virginia Governor’s race, seen in this Democracy Now headline…

GOP Efforts to Ban Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” Now at Center of Virginia Governor’s Race.

To explain why the word “ban” does not apply here — imagine a world where the parent in question were to offer up her recommendation for what her Smart Kid Senior class student should have on the curriculum — Go Dog Go by P J Eastman. In taken the suggestion, the school administration opts not to put the book on the curriculum. It makes as much sense to call this dropping of “Go Dog Go” as a “Ban” as what we see in this instance in Virginia — where the parent wants to “opt” his kid out of reading the Morrison book. Such word usage gets lobbed lazily about in how our classroom wars in that “critical race” — to various degrees of sane and insane measures in education, and making no judgements statements here beyond a misused word usage — chartings on how to teach the curriculum are sold as “ban”s.

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