Posted on 10/14/2018 5:46:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Gritty, the bright orange, furry, 7-foot creature of Philadelphian origin, is no longer a simple mascot for a hockey team: Antifa activists have co-opted him as their own. In fact, they so effectively claimed Gritty as a working-class, leftist icon that the Wall Street Journal was forced to publish an anguished op-ed Monday demanding that these people keep their Marxist hands off Gritty.
The same leftists who want statues of Thomas Jefferson removed are now petitioning for Gritty to replace Mayor Frank Rizzo on a downtown mural, Jillian Kay Melchior said in the Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Gritty belongs to Philadelphia, not to far-left activists. Still, in an era when everything from Nike and the NFL to your local restaurant is a political battlefield, this development is as predictable as it is sad, she said. Not only cant we have nice things; we cant even have silly, creepy things.
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I loved the “Broad Street Bullies” back in the 70s.
Oh, it is his birthday today. Nice touch. -)
Gosh, I just had to do a search on your name to make sure this wasn’t about you!
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