The Olympic U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams both won gold over Canada, and progressive journalists have been trying to gin up grievances ever since. On today’s edition of The Editors, Noah says, “The whole thing strikes me as a product of paranoia.”
“We saw these earthy males enjoying a typically masculine setting,” he says, and these sportswriters “said, ‘Oh no, the right might be having a cultural moment here. Let’s arrest it.’ . . . And then they made it a self-fulfilling prophecy that it became a cultural moment that only conservatives could enjoy.”
Noah points out that the women’s team’s moment has also been trampled on, saying, “I feel pretty bad for the women’s team because . . . their whole success . . . their gold medal victory has been now cast in the light of men. It’s all evaluated through the performance of the men.” He argues, “If the men had lost, it would still be that. Because this cohort, this journalistic caste, would be bombarding [the women’s team] with the fashionable misandry that has become currency on the progressive left.”
These people, Noah says, are “so obviously out of touch. . . . These people not only don’t care that they’re unrepresentative and alienating themselves from the country they’re employed to describe. They like doing that. They like their own self-marginalization.
“Their whole self-image seems to be bound up in the notion that they’re better than all the rubes out there who enjoy the bread and circuses while Rome burns that they’re paid to talk about. I can only hope that they succeed in getting the self-marginalization they seem to so desperately want.”
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