Because liberal violence is when one gets mask-shamed and it’s claimed to be no different than burning neighborhoods.
The maddening aspect of #RealMenWearMasks isn’t the message but what’s behind it: We’ve reached the point of this polarized pandemic where our current plan for salvation is convincing certain recalcitrant men that wearing masks is the testosteroney thing to do.
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What masks really are is a pain in the neck. Chafing, uncomfortable, uncool in every imaginable way. You don’t wear them because Dick Cheney decided he can pull it off in a cowboy hat. You do it because nobody can make a mask look cool, but we’re going to do it anyway: be chafed and dorky together, all of us, because doing that saves lives. You can call that being a hero, but you can also call it being a responsible adult.
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According to witnesses, #TraderJoeCovidKaren waited outside for an hour wearing a mask, then took it off once inside, put nothing in her basket, and was getting aggressively up in people’s faces.She did this on purpose.