AT her lovely blog, Resting in Apricity, Casey Ann wrote earlier this summer of her trip to Paris. She was traveling as part of a study abroad program. Below is a snapshot she took in the Louvre. Her tour guide described a group of people protesting homosexual marriage as “the archaic people,” to which Casey Ann took exception.

Apricity, by the way, is the warmth of the sun in winter.

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Thomas F. Bertonneau writes:

Casey Ann’s anecdote arouses my immediate unqualified sympathy. The Left politicizes everything ceaselessly. It is a vulgar, aggressive, and totalitarian trait. Leftists also always assume that everyone in earshot agrees with them a priori and that dissent, should it appear, is maladjusted and insidious. As a result, no one on the Left can so much as cross the street or ask for the salt and pepper without adding a tendentious comment. I share Casey Ann’s desire to enjoy the public square free of politics – as for example, when taking a guided tour of a state-funded museum. I think it fair that tobacco smoke should be prohibited in common spaces and it is by nothing other than simple analogy that bigoted verbalisms should be prohibited in the same. Both are obnoxious; both are deleterious to an individual’s wellbeing.

Casey Ann was right to insist that she was not arguing with the tour-guide; that she was making a simple, civilized request, the equivalent to, “Please put out your cigarette.” I would have been less diplomatic: “Tell us about the Mona Lisa, already – we’re not interested in your second-hand political smoke.” It’s the old story: If everyone in Casey Ann’s position spoke up in simple terms as she did, those who never shut up might begin to take the hint.

Laura writes:

“Second-hand political smoke.”

That’s perfect.

Alex writes:

If archaic is how people lived just weeks ago, before the latest progressive victory, imagine the hatred and disdain progressives have for more distant past – of their own countries, their own people. They hate and despise their own ancestors, their own parents.

Also, look at that herd of slobs, unaware of the contrast between the beauty they are seeing and their own ugliness, and compare with this photo of visitors to the Louvre:

Casey Ann writes:

Thank you.

The protest in my second photo was actually a Leftist one against, I believe, La Manif Pour Tous and its allies as a whole. One can even spy a banner at the very right that shows “CO” and “EX,” presumably sporting the “coexist” nonsense. I could be misreading it. But there were undeniably communists and “anti-fascists.”

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