“Chug, chug, chug!” The chanted exhortation, a staple of fraternity parties and hen nights, echoes through Crypto.com arena. The screens that hang over center ice show a middle-aged man, somewhere in the audience, draining a clear plastic cup of beer. As he finishes, he wipes the foam from his beard. The crowd cheers. A second later, the cameraman finds a young woman in a different tier of the arena; she rises, waves, swallows a cocktail, then grabs her boyfriend’s can of Modelo, pouring every last drop into her mouth. She finishes, grins, and to applause, offers an unstable bow.
I’m not saying they’re equivalent. I support free expression for all. My point is that both are unpopular. Whether one is unpopular for better reasons than the other isn’t the point to me - it’s how we deal with those who frighten or disgust us.
Hi Hugo. I think one of the things I most appreciate about your columns is what I perceive to be the goal of understanding, or at least allowing others. It's a goal we share, perhaps more the understanding than allowing, in my case. We all have our flaws.
It seems to me that in this column you're comparing, if not equating nazis and drag queens. The left worried about one, the right about the other, shouldn't they each march along parallel avenues. This, I don't understand. How is holding up literal nazis and saying they should be okay, as long as they don't frighten the horses, anything like saying drag queens should be okay? One wants entire races of people and followers of religions dead, the other changed their clothes. Could you help me understand your perspective here?
I’m not saying they’re equivalent. I support free expression for all. My point is that both are unpopular. Whether one is unpopular for better reasons than the other isn’t the point to me - it’s how we deal with those who frighten or disgust us.
Hi Hugo. I think one of the things I most appreciate about your columns is what I perceive to be the goal of understanding, or at least allowing others. It's a goal we share, perhaps more the understanding than allowing, in my case. We all have our flaws.
It seems to me that in this column you're comparing, if not equating nazis and drag queens. The left worried about one, the right about the other, shouldn't they each march along parallel avenues. This, I don't understand. How is holding up literal nazis and saying they should be okay, as long as they don't frighten the horses, anything like saying drag queens should be okay? One wants entire races of people and followers of religions dead, the other changed their clothes. Could you help me understand your perspective here?