It’s that point that should demonstrate the echo chamber in which Kimmel lives. I have spent virtually all of my life as a political minority in the areas in which I live — Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts. I seek out conversations with people with whom I disagree. After all, my goal is to convince those who disagree that they ought to consider a different point of view. I’d love to have conversations with Kimmel’s audience, even if they disagreed — hell, particularly if they disagreed. Kimmel has every right to speak on issues he sees fit, but if he doesn’t understand that his tenor and tone are insulting to those he supposedly seeks to convert, then what’s the purpose of making those comments? If he derides those who disagree as ignoramuses who should just tune out, why make the point?
The only point is to vent spleen, or to virtue signal to those who disagree. Which means that all the paeans to Kimmel’s supposed bravery in speaking truth to power mean nothing: they’re merely huzzahs from the in-crowd. So much for Jimmy Kimmel as the moral conscience of the nation — more like Jimmy Kimmel, a man celebrated by fellow Left-thinkers as a moral conscience for repeating the opinions they love while dismissing everyone else with a shrug.
Jimmy Kimmel Just Demonstrated He's Not Interested In Discussion. He's Interested In Venting Or Preening.
The only point is to vent spleen, or to virtue signal to those who disagree. Which means that all the paeans to Kimmel’s supposed bravery in speaking truth to power mean nothing: they’re merely huzzahs from the in-crowd. So much for Jimmy Kimmel as the moral conscience of the nation — more like Jimmy Kimmel, a man celebrated by fellow Left-thinkers as a moral conscience for repeating the opinions they love while dismissing everyone else with a shrug.
Jimmy Kimmel Just Demonstrated He's Not Interested In Discussion. He's Interested In Venting Or Preening.