I'm not sure that Trump Dick Suckers (TM's words) disorder the left has is the only answer??
P.S. "Her heart does weird shit when she see one"... What a FUCKING PSYCHO!!
Pulitzer Finalist Implores the Twitterverse: Please Stop Wearing Red Hats Because It’s ‘Making Everyone Scared’
Rebecca Makkai implores you: Stop wearing all red caps.
It’s just too scary. To “everyone.”
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist took to Twitter to ask that everyone make a fashion change for the good of America. Here’s what she had to say:
“Is anyone else made really uncomfortable these days by anyone wearing any kind of red baseball cap? Like, I see one and my heart does weird sh*t and then I finally realize it only says Titleist or whatever. Maybe don’t wear red caps anymore, normal people? Also, for the love of God: The clever folks wearing “Make America Read Again” or whatever caps — NO. You’re making everyone scared. Don’t do it.It seems a fairly tall order. A few caps at risk:
But the stakes are high — Rebecca provided an equivalent:
- Washington Wizards
- Boston Red Sox
- Cincinnati Reds
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Buffalo Bills
- Chicago Bulls
- Cleveland Indians
- Alabama Crimson Tide
“If you’re here to be contrary: an equivalent here would be western Hindus choosing not to use the swastika symbol in public despite it being sacred to their faith because it would offend/frighten people. The red hat has become a symbol of hate bc of how its wearers act.”She also made clear her appeal is meant only for “normal people” who don’t wanna “freak people out”:
As pointed out by The Daily Wire, the posts aren’t Rebecca’s first comment on the era of Trump.
At ElectricLiterature.com — in a December essay titled “The World’s on Fire. Can We Still Talk About Books?” — she lamented:
This July, I hit a low. A how-do-we-keep-fighting-one-more-day low, a scream-silently-into-the-mirror low, a twilight-of-democracy low. Not my first, not my last. I tried to distract myself by retreating to the bubble of literary Twitter, where I started a thread listing some of my favorite overlooked fiction. Others added, until the list was heartbreakingly long. (All these masterpieces, neglected!) Soon, though, someone jumped in with a bit of scolding: “We’re 100 days out from an election,” she wrote. “That’s what we should all be thinking about.”Rebecca is an accomplished novelist and short story writer, which I immensely respect — her The Great Believers made finalist for a Pulitzer and scored a spot on The New York Times top 10 list of books for 2018.
My self-righteous response was easy like-bait: “I refuse to live in a world where an oppressive regime prevents us from advocating for art,” I wrote, and added some feel-good words about fighting despotism through empathy. Soon, the woman apologized — a writer herself, she’d been despondent lately, she said — and I hold no ill will toward her. She might just as easily, as many have done before her and many continue to do, ask how one could post about books on a day when there’d been a mass shooting, a day when babies were in cages, a day when toddlers were gassed, a day when… well, any other day, really. Her question wasn’t new to me, in part because it’s something I ask myself on a daily basis. Is it really okay to talk about art right now? To leave the real and broken world behind and talk about fictional ones?
Great job.
I will say, though, despite her plea, I think there are a whole lot of Roll Tide hats that won’t be going anywhere.
-ALEX
