(06-21-2022 11:15 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote: I’m really lost on how this is an obviously partisan thing this guy did, and why a likely liberal crowd would eat this schpeel up.
The guy sounds like a hack who tried to cover up his knowledge gap with a fake sense of confidence and gravitas. What a schmuck indeed!
Note that I said he wasn't a typical democrat, but that he was 'woke'.... which is some faction of the left. Certainly few on the right would be characterized as 'woke', but I don't consider a whole LOT of the left to be 'woke'. You have your far left moments, but I wouldn't consider anyone on here remotely 'woke'. I said he thought it would sell well to the MALIBU crowd... which isn't political. I think it obvious that he thought his characterizations of the owl wouldn't hurt his tips nor get him fired/replaced by the venue.... nor even that the SPCA would be called (and if that happened, it would likely be by the left)... and noted that we were probably 8 pretty staunch conservatives just in my crowd... who, had the guy not been so woefully misguided that we almost felt sorry for him, but we were on a magnificent beach and his bird was making it even better overcame our desire to correct this fool.
If he had similarly been out there telling me how God had given him this bird to dominate him, I would have said the same thing about him not being typical of a Republican... and that he too misread his crowd, especially if there were liberals (animal rights activists, not 'anti God') there.
So 'being woke' is certainly political IMO... and although part of the left, even in Malibu it can be taken too far.
That said, He's been there a while and I'm sure this wasn't the first time he'd said such a thing. He said (in response to a comment by someone about how smart they were) that they were actually very dumb... which preceded his comment about privilege. I assumed that many or maybe even MOST liberals/democrats wouldn't have liked his schtic... maybe I should have been less generous and given us more to argue about??
FTR, there were lots of kids there... Had he been remotely smart, he would have been talking about how AMAZING the bird was... not how dumb and privileged he was.
I mean, if he thinks the BIRD is privileged, it seems obvious what he thinks of a bunch of old white men who paid Malibu prices to have an owl chase sea gulls away from the beach