Thursday, June 30th 2005
The New New Right
Daraka Kenric, leftist from Santa Barbara, rants against College Republicans, with a special focus on us Cal types:
This new right-wing rebelliousness comes in two distinct flavors. While Southern and Midwestern cultural conservatives pose as defenders of the underdog against liberal intellectual elites, the coastal conservative plays to the crowd by rejecting the religious restrictions of their allies. They have made conservatism safe for the hedonistic college bro. Being a right winger at Berkeley or UCSB means that you can drink and fuck all you want, you can smoke pot and watch pornography and listen to rap, AND you can throw garbage at anyone who dares to suggest that you have any responsibility for the suffering or disadvantage of women, people of color, Iraqis or immigrants. You get to be supremely comfortable and arrogant at the same time. You can parrot all the comforting stories your parents told you about why you deserve everything you have, and you get to do so while being rebellious, cool and pleasure-seeking. Frickin’ sweet.
Its enough to make me miss the hippies. Well, almost.
Cool!
Well, well, well. Isn’t that the truth?
Comment by HB — 6/30/2005 @ 9:40 pm
“In the contest for President, a barnburning, libertarianish Berkeley undergrad faced off against a values-agenda Georgian.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA PWNED
Comment by HB — 6/30/2005 @ 9:46 pm
Actually, that is true. The conservatives at Berkeley don’t really act conservative.
Comment by anon — 7/1/2005 @ 12:52 pm
It’s written as if that’s a bad thing.
Comment by B.A.D. — 7/1/2005 @ 1:52 pm