“What Platner represents to me in this dilettantist mode is an immature and spoiled boy—a boy who never took seriously the privilege with which he was born, a boy who went to war because it seemed like fun, a boy who sees consequences as something for other people. “
Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man.
I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity
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Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
