Tomorrow Belongs To Her, Ctd (Andrew Sullivan posts a "letter" from a "reader" attacking Palin)

The Atlantic ^ | February 10, 2010 | Andrew Sullivan

[2ndDivisionVet]

A reader writes:

I was born, raised, and educated in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, an exemplary Whitopia. I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching Fox News and had a "Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" bumper sticker on my debate tub. I was lucky though. I did well enough in school to be eligible to attend one of those evil elite East Cost universities on scholarship. I defended Bush, idiotically, all the way until my senior year, when I studied abroad in both China and England. I was forced, over and over, by classmates and those I met in other countries to confront the grotesque neo-con mindset I had thought was so obviously right.

It took crossing both oceans, a comprehensive study of the history of religion and government, and four years of college to change my perspective. As someone who moved from one extreme to the other, I can tell you the one thing that saved me was the conservative impulse to be self critical, to avoid hubris and arrogance. The other was my parents teaching me to love science. My first break with Whitopia doctrine was when I argued with my church's youth group leader over the reality of evolution. That someone could deny something so obvious baffled me. It has been a slow and painful process since then, testing and retesting my beliefs.

I am now everything I grew up thinking I should hate:

I live in New York, go to NYU, and I study feminist and queer theory.(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

WTH?

[grey_whiskers]

Apparently, Andrew is writing in the persona of the womyn he always wanted to be... /sarc>

Cheers!

[JohnLongIsland]

Think of the bright side, if his parents sent him to Columbia he would be majoring in Islamic terrorist studies.

[Oztrich Boy]

satire?

[T Lady]

Just another sad case of PDS.

PDS seems not only to affect those on the Left but some on the Right as well. Frankly I think it's just the fear some have of an articulate, bright, and beautiful woman who happens to be a Conservative.

[The Comedian]

I was born, raised, and educated in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, an exemplary Whitopia. I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching Fox News and had a "Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" bumper sticker on my debate tub.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[madameguinot]

Conservatism isn’t an extreme so this person never was a conservative.

[denydenydeny]

Yeah, I call BS on this.

[VeniVidiVici]

I live in New York, go to NYU, and I study feminist and queer theory.

LOL! No way!!

Should I read on to find that she is now either bi- or homosexual?

[4Speed]

Why does this scenario look so perfectly partisan ..... that I find it hilariously Ellie Light ?

Palin has these Lefties scared as hell !

[Question Liberal Authority]

Christopher Buckley?

[FlingWingFlyer]

an exemplary Whitopia

Sounds like the ho has a problem with white folks. Unfortunately, that's not the only "issue" that she has so there is probably not much hope that she'll ever be normal.

[muawiyah]

She's PETA and lives in an efficiency with a larger Labrador Retriever!

We'll never know what goes on in there.

[Trailerpark Badass]

It took crossing both oceans, a comprehensive study of the history of religion and government, and four years of college to change my perspective.

recent college graduates...is there anything they DON'T know?

[hinckley buzzard]

I am now everything I grew up thinking I should hate: I live in New York, go to NYU, and I study feminist and queer theory.(continued)

A fag's a fag for a' that. (Apologies to Robert Burns, who affirmative action shitboy Skip Gates thinks is Shakespeare.)

[Psycho_Bunny]

We’re supposed to believe any of this? lol

[John Valentine]

I can tell you the one thing that saved me was the conservative impulse to be self critical, to avoid hubris and arrogance.

Well, lady, now that you have gone over the other side you won't be bothered by any of this nonsense any more.

[Blood of Tyrants]

My first break with Whitopia doctrine was when I argued with my church's youth group leader over the reality of evolution. That someone could deny something so obvious baffled me.

All creation proclaims the glory of God. It takes a deliberate act of will to look at what is created and then deny that there is an intelligent design.

[mplsconservative]

I am horrified by the insane ramblings of Palin and the small government ideas she mutilates on a daily basis.

How does one 'mutilate' an idea on a daily basis? Is English this person's second language? Ellie Light is none too bright. :)

[Bratch]