Comment by rayiner
4 years ago
When a community is attacked from the outside, they will put aside their internal disagreements and coalesce around someone who promises to "fight," as opposed to reasonable folks who take a conciliatory approach.
4 years ago
When a community is attacked from the outside, they will put aside their internal disagreements and coalesce around someone who promises to "fight," as opposed to reasonable folks who take a conciliatory approach.
But they picked someone to "fight" who doesn't fight to show that the outsiders were wrong about the community. They instead picked someone who illustrates the outsider's points.
It's like if the fraternities at a college are asked to send a representative to a committee that is addressing accusations that the frats are rife with excessive drinking and sexual harassment, and the frats pick someone from Animal House, or like if Clowns of America International needed a spokesman to fight the image many people have that clowns are creepy and scary and dangerous, and they picked John Wayne Gacy.