The sun rises in the morning.
The sun sets in the evening.
Water is wet.
Pretty women move merchandise.
Found this on my substack feed:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/courage-in-the-time-of-peak-hallucinatory
Cute Asian woman in a weird commercial selling Converse Chucks. So of course the usual suspects are outraged, and Converse bent a knee. For the life of me, I can’t understand why. How would that ad not be racist to these fools? with a black girl? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in Chuck Taylors.
She’s just a Gen-Z goofing around with the dumb shoes. So what?
I agree with Gato Malo here:
1. there is nothing wrong with this ad and never was. it’s team perpetually outraged seeing “intersectional race hate” in every ink blot because it’s their source of power and sense of purpose.
2. team IRH is as impossible as it is worthless. you cannot mollify or appease them. there is no level at which they will be happy. they do not want justice. they want to bully you and play at intellectualism by dragging you into absurdly contrived struggle sessions that pass off cluster B hallucinations of entitlement as perceptive insight into their bewilderingly fractal forests of self-inflicted fabulist micro-aggression. (in this case, the jussie smollett level nonsense neo-lynching hysteria)
3. the only correct answer is (and always was) “pipe down you self-absorbed, histrionic crybully frail. no one cares and i do not want to play your reindeer games. pound sand.”
4. the fact that this has been the clearly dominant and successful strategy of late means it no longer takes high levels of vanguard bravery to resist this twaddle.
Meh. I don’t buy Converse, usually. I do have a pair of black-on-black Chucks I wear as riding shoes. The soles are grippy, which keeps me stable at a light, and I like the tactile feel of the brake and shifter that I don’t get in a pair of conventional boots.
They bent a knee. They shouldn’t have. But I get it. They needed to tell these whiners to piss up a rope like Sydney Sweeney pretty much did, and does. All the needed to say is “Get bent. Cute girls move shoes. We want to move shoes” and let it go.
One would have thought they’d understand that after the Target, amongst other woke failures.
