This video, and the surrounding controversy, are among the most extraordinary things I have seen in a long time. The video, around 20 minutes long, is by a “black conservative,” I don’t know his name. But he is conservative, which is to say, normal. The story he tells in the video goes, briefly, like this:
There is an “influencer” named Kate Mackz. Her shtick is interviewing celebrities while running with them. Some months ago, during the presidential campaign, she came across Tim Walz in Central Park, ran with him and interviewed him.
Fast forward to the last week or so. Kate Mackz was in Washington, next to the White House, and encountered Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. She asked to interview Leavitt, and Leavitt complied. That interview, which you see in the video, is interesting and likable. Leavitt gave Mackz a behind the scenes tour of portions of the White House, including her office. Mackz posted the interview, which most people would consider a coup.
Liberals went bats**t crazy. They denounced Kate Mackz for “platforming” the utterly unacceptable Karoline Leavitt. (“KKK Karoline,” as Hope Walz calls her. Getting to that soon.) I understand that these attacks caused Mackz to delete the video of her interview with Leavitt. The idea that a little-known “influencer” is “platforming” the White House Press Secretary is the kind of delusional thinking we see every day from Democrats.
But now we get to the main event: the black conservative includes clips of left-wingers attacking Leavitt and Mackz, including Hope Walz, Tim Walz’s daughter. I don’t want to rip Hope, a young woman who, despite her cluelessness and apparently infinite self-regard, might wise up someday. Rather–the main point of this narrative–listen to what Hope says about her father.
Hope Walz says that when she started running, her father, recently the Democrats’ candidate for vice president, explained to her that running is a highly privileged activity. If you are going to run, Tim said, you have to recognize your privilege in doing so, because many people–most, it sounds like–can’t afford to run.
This is deeply weird. You might say that youth hockey, for example, is “privileged,” because it actually is expensive. But running? People have been running for thousands of years, since before people wore shoes. Anyone can run, and everyone has run. It is one of the most universal of all human activities. You want to run? Go ahead. Yes, you probably need to own a pair of shoes. But I am not aware of a single shoeless person in America’s population of more than 300 million.
This anecdote reflects the deep madness of liberalism. Every damn thing is seen through the same “lens,” a word beloved by liberals. It is all about “privilege”–that would mostly be us normals–and the “marginalized”–those are the ones the Democrats want to vote for them, together with, of course, the self-righteous, left-wing and seemingly self-hating “privileged” who comprise the core of the Democratic Party.
Finally, Tim Walz told an audience at Harvard that he was selected as the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee because of his ability to relate to white men. That was delusional for obvious reasons, but if Walz had said on the campaign trail that running is an activity of the “privileged,” he would have been even more of a laughingstock.
Here is the video:
