Bill Ayers speaks two blocks from my cubicle and you get this .
Is some reactionary millionaire training them to make these signs? Is this a strategy, or what?
Is some reactionary millionaire training them to make these signs? Is this a strategy, or what?
Relax. She isn't protesting against Marx but against Mark who was a bastard anyway.
ReplyDeleteIt's an ad! Ayers teaches Marxist agenda! Come one, come all! Drinks and chat to follow lecture!
ReplyDeleteReactionary millionaire? A mid-level manager with poor spelling skills and access to some felt pens more like.
ReplyDeleteI cracked up at 'Markist'. I bet she's got it confused with Lew Ayres too.
ReplyDeleteBut Giovanni, every single time you see a picture of these people the signs have kind of spelling. Sort of a reactionary Situationist tactic? Mass orthographic provocations?
ReplyDeleteChuckie K
if the whole thing is staged for web photos then one can assume the mispellings are meant to help the virality
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point. But calling attention to one's functional illiteracy strikes me as something that a movement without money would do rather than the work of a millionaire puppeteer.
ReplyDelete"That's a good point. But calling attention to one's functional illiteracy strikes me as something that a movement without money would do rather than the work of a millionaire puppeteer."
ReplyDeleteWho is it for though? these people are on display to scare somebody. And who are they intended to scare? They are intended to scare the majority of Americans so that we will seek protection from Obama and Wall Street, and say, yes, take whatever you want just please protect us from these illiterate crackers. This propaganda featuring these hicks with their comically illiterate signs is for the benefit of highly educated, literate, cultured elites, who promise to protect everyone from the variety of bogeys. The point is, you can't just have minority bogeys anymore in the US - you have to scare black people and latin@s and arab americans and jews and feminists and gays and lots of white people who are not scared by the traditional minority bogeys too, and you can't scare them/us with them/ourselves. So these scary hicks become visible and are added to the bogey pantheon. they exist of course, as do terrorists and rapists and pedophiles...but they are becoming a term in the justification of the status quo and the dominant class.