So now "pink pussy hats" are offensive??

In My Humble Opinion
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I wasn’t personally “chastising” her, just pointing out the futility of her philosophy. It reminds me of a story “supposed to be true” I read once about a naturalist and a Buddhist a century or so back. The naturalist showed the Buddhist microbes in a drop of water under a microscope. The Buddhist begged and begged and begged the naturalist to give him the microscope. Finally the naturalist gave un–at which point the Buddhist smashed the microscope to pieces. The Buddhist had thought he was being a good Buddhist, eating no meat, wearing no leather, even avoiding swatting flies or stepping on ants. But then he discovered that he was unavoidably killing countless tiny animals every moment if his life, and it shook his worldview to the core. He felt the need to destroy the microscope to spare his fellow monks this revelation.

Trying to avoid doing anything at all that offends anyone at all is as futile as smashing the microscope when it reveals a fact that you find disturbing. Giving up on anything and everything that potentially might offend a microscopic minority doesn’t make you “woke”, it makes you a timid, obsequious butt-monkey.

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Someone forgot to tell all the liberals what the liberals really think because there’s over a quarter million people in downtown Chicago right now and a whole heck of a lot of them are wearing pink hats.

My wife’s hat is black but I think that was an aesthetic choice (she’s not black)

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Pussy hats everywhere I look. A variety of colors, and some with Hello Kitty.

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He implied that this was a broadly held view, not that it was the opinion of one nutball. FWIW, I agree that the hats are kind of stupid.

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No, he did not:

The Free Republic website is, shockingly, www. freerepublic.com/

ETA: broke link because nobody should be going there.

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If there was one with Hello Kitty, I might wear one.

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For certain definitions of “amazing”.

The second post in this thread could be described as a turnip, were somebody inclined to do so. It’s a free country.

And I fully agree that it’s a really ugly hat with a stupid name. However I have no esthetic sensibilities whatsoever so I wouldn’t recommend anybody stop wearing the hat on my say-so. (I recommend they stop calling them pussy hats on my say-so, though. That’s objectively stupid.)

Sure it can be discussed! Right alongside the subject of how stupid, ugly, and pink it is to pretend that this one liberal’s decisions impart “amazingness” to the entire left.

So discussing the wearing of the hats. What would you wear with them? A turtleneck?