In an odd tweet, Francis seemed to endorse the practice of flipping the bird, claiming that extending one’s middle digit indicated a certain level of “honesty” against the forces of corruption. The tweet was part of a series in which Francis extolled the virtues of all the various fingers in an aphoristic fashion. Read more
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How virtue signalling actually furthers the partisan divide
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
In a speech on July 23, 2022, before the Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced himself to the audience with the words, “My name is Ted Cruz and my pronoun is kiss my ass.” In 2019, the Vermont College of Fine Arts appealed to a different group. They replaced the term Read more