Dear Friends,                                                                                                    Elmo lives!

You do know who Elmo is? Right, just checking (some of my students have never heard of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Anyway, Elmo posted a very sweet – Elmo-like – post on his, whatever it is, I can never get the names straight, anyway, he posted it, saying how wonderful Bad Bunny is. He just had one suggestion, Bad Bunny is so good that instead of Bad Bunny he should be called Good Bunny. I don’t know if Bad Bunny has responded, I hope he does, it seems to me that he and Elmo have a real affinity.

However, someone else did respond. I don’t know if the name Jordan Peterson means anything to you, I hope it doesn’t – if the name Buffy the Vampire Slayer doesn’t then we gotta talk. Jordan Peterson is a Canadian writer often described as a “philosopher”, ok, many competing definitions of the term, etc., etc., etc. I believe his training is in psychology. Anyway, he’s one of the most recent reactionary “intellectuals” supposed to legitimize reactionary propaganda: he’s a philosopher, for heaven’s sake!

His main line, at least I think it is, is the standard end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it-because-masculinity-is-being-destroyed apocalypse. But with a bit of “philosophical” razzle-dazzle thrown in. (If masculine males are so terrific, it seems odd that they’re so easily “canceled”. Just a thought.) He’s very popular in the “incel” community.

But to get to the point: Peterson issued an astonishingly vicious attack on Elmo for Elmo’s praise of Bad Bunny. Look it up, I’m only going to quote one thing, and even then with ***. Peterson told Elmo to go f*** himself.

I’m not attacking Peterson, he thinks what he thinks, or maybe he doesn’t, whatever. I’m just asking who do you align with, a very nice, kind, red … being of unspecified nature, or a man (yes, man) so consumed with impotent rage that he attacks said being with the nastiest obscenity?

Love and solidarity,

            Bobby

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