The outfit that Bernie Sanders wore during President Joe Biden’s inauguration was so funny that subsequent memes of it had both the Left and Right laughing online˳ Naturally, when something causes even the slightest bit of enjoyment, some major city school teacher somewhere moves to kill the mood by describing it with words that rank well on Twitter˳
In this case, Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a San Francisco school teacher, has called Sanders’ inauguration apparel a manifestation of “white male privilege˳”
Here is her case˳ It’s next-level insanity:
“I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher,” Seyer-Ochi writes in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed˳ “What did I see? What did I think my students should see?”
Any guesses on what she saw and thought her students saw? A funny old guy freezing in the cold? Wrong, she instead saw “a wealthy, incredibly well-educated and privileged white man˳”
You are probably wondering what showing up in a cheap puffy jacket and huge mittens has to do with being white and male and privileged, but it’s offensive to question such assertions˳ Don’t ever do it again˳
This teacher who educates our youth doesn’t stop there˳ She adds that “[Sanders] manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel˳ I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie˳”
Got that? Only white guys dress up in warm clothes for outdoor events in January˳ Everyone else must dress like Janet Yellen, the female United States Secretary of the Treasury˳
Wait a minute:
Janet Yellen wins #Inauguration fashion award 🥇 pic˳twitter˳com/ZAOTnKfH48
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) January 20, 2021
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi just took idiocy to a new level, which makes sense since she probably just wanted to have an op-ed published by a newspaper in 2021˳ Goal reached˳
I almost hate to get serious about such a moronic topic, but her op-ed has already started a discussion, so it is important to discuss the wider trend behind it˳
Americans in influential professions — teachers, professors, authors, reporters, celebrities — see people not as individuals, but as members of groups determined by skin color and gender˳ I discussed this phenomenon on Twitter a few weeks ago˳ Instead of making observations such as “Tony goes to the market,” woke Leftists obscure their observations by saying, “Tony, who is (insert race) and (insert gender), goes to the market˳” Why do Tony’s race and gender matter? The point of the statement should be that Tony is going to market, nothing more˳
Reasonable Americans who saw Sanders’ attire laughed at it and thought, “It must be freezing there˳” It was˳ Unfortunately, there are always people — in this case, Ingrid Seyer-Ochi — who skip logic and just see a white male˳ It blinds them˳ At that point, nothing else matters to them˳
This poisonous mindset is too common and too often rewarded˳ Too many outlets give a platform to those who ask, “What if this person was this color or this gender?” about almost every situation˳ MSNBC and ESPN have paid hosts millions of dollars to ask this ultimately unanswerable question, even though many of the situations did not involve race or gender˳
This same San Francisco school system that employs Seyer-Ochi has also concluded that Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves, is now too racist to have a San Francisco school named after him˳ The students of this district are taught that Lincoln was a racist, not a hero, and that, despite Yellen donning similar apparel, only white guys can get away with wearing a big coat at a presidential inauguration˳
This mindset has fractured our society˳ It does not recognize individuality, only general skin color˳ That’s an awful place to be, yet that’s where our educators, politicians, and media want to take us˳ That gives them control, a lot of it˳
Bernie Sanders (I – VT), 79, admits that he isn’t fashionable and that he was cold while outside in the winter˳ That’s why he wore the now-famous coat and mittens˳ Photos of him in his appropriate winter garb then generated a humorous reaction, which the country desperately needs˳ However, radicals like Ingrid Seyer-Ochi hate to see others enjoying themselves˳ So they attempt to dampen any spark of levity by calling it “white privilege˳”