The author most amusingly illustrates the contempt one subcaste of the Better-than-yous has for a competing subcaste. A pox on your shibboleths! Maybe I’ve never gotten drunk with Russians or with a Somali immigrant cabdriver (neither is a safe activity for a woman), but I’m sure he’s never engaged in harmonic glossolalia with Salvadorans.
So there, I’m as “authentic” as you, Nassib-who-used-to-just-go-by-Nick. Yes, I’m that old.
Right on.
The idiot academic or intellectual is real, but this guy is just another variation on it.
psycholophasters and pathologizers, oh my.
You make some great points. People have their own authenticity, whether it be tossing ideas back-and-forth with drunk Russians, or those from any number of other cultures.
It’s the condescension of the IYI that makes most conservatives nuts.