…namely the “it’s all a bunch of ironic hipsters whose lives are so comfortable that they don’t feel any real commitment to anything” brush, I ask: isn’t it just possible that much of Stewart’s audience voted for Barack Obama expressly because they feel sadness for those who can’t afford health insurance, and want to help those less fortunate than themselves? For instance, maybe, just maybe, the young liberals in the audience wanted universal health care for entirely non-ironic reasons?
I resist the temptation to close with an unironic fuck-you.
Hi there! My irritation is primarily with Stewart. I think a lot of his fans are comfortable, which is why the show’s non-confrontational irony is so attractive to so many people. But I wasn’t trying to make inclusive claims about the entirety of his fan-base; the most I would say is that one can make some generalizations that are mostly true, not all true. Stewart, on the other hand, was pretty weak at that rally and my post was almost completely aimed at him, not at his fans.
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