Taps and Dies: On red-baiting
A reaction to our union Comrade's reaction to our farewell letter
Comrade, not that we expected you to take our farewell letter like a true mensch (pardon the cultural appropriation), but accusing us of red-baiting? Oh, dear. It almost stung. For us here at the Flickering Beacon, red and brown are all the same, and it’s not just you brown-baiting us vs. us red-baiting you…
So let us offer you a clarification.
Neither your thin-skinned, performative derrière, sore from un-grading, nor the iron fists of your shaved-head antipodes care to address any of the following real problems, picked at random:
Half of the Appalachians is walking around without teeth, whether Democrats or Republicans are running the town
Our kids, of all political denominations, are #38 in the world in math, with Vietnam residing half-way to the top (but hey that’s ok ‘cause math is white supremacy!)
Schools for gifted and talented, the only place for kids from poor backgrounds to get a usable math and science education, are in shatters. It does not matter which party their hard-working parents voted for
Our post was not a whatever-color-baiting: there is nothing to catch there, just some old shoes and tin cans. Oh, yes, and nuts and bolts.
Shhh! If you talk about real problems, you might actually have to...*gasp!*...FIX THEM!
That's work, you ninny! Actual hard work! It might cost real money, and that means we can't put it in our pockets!