Hey, white guys
December 20, 2016Here’s an interesting video from MTV, who evidently still don’t understand the backlash against political correctness involved in the recent election. (Robby Soave has another good column about that, btw.)
Hey, white guys: we came up for some New Year's Resolutions for you. pic.twitter.com/C9EeIY6wig
— MTV News (@MTVNews) December 19, 2016
Update: Looks like the tweet has been deleted. Luckily, the video’s on YouTube.
This struck me as surprisingly tone-deaf and patronizing. But others had more amusing reactions.
Jonah Goldberg tweeted.
Where's the fine print?
"Paid for by the Committee To Re-Elect Donald Trump." https://t.co/FdKcRWxVOT
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) December 19, 2016
And Nick Gillespie wrote at Reason:
[…] This is a remarkable document not so much because of the individual “resolutions” but of the source — one of those nefarious multinational corporations that specifically tries to sell fake coolness and hipness to youngsters that progressives are always railing about — and the tin-ear quality of its overall effect.
Whole swaths of corporate America — especially in the entertainment industry — seem utterly convinced that their audiences are irredeemably stupid, racist, homophobic, and beneath contempt. All this, despite massive strides toward equality under the law and growing comfort with all sorts of ethnic, racial, sexual, and lifestyle diversity. […]
The MTV vid goes beyond mere virtue-signaling into uncharted territory of contempt and spite that works to undermine all feelings of common cause that might actually make for an even more-open and tolerant United States. In this, it rivals the sort of remonstrations emanating from the pages of another hugely powerful corporate entity, The New York Times.
No Truce With Kings 
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