Those Who Want Respect, Give Respect

Om my, the Performative Civility People have arrived:

There is, of course, an obvious false equivalence problem here:

i too am unable to distinguish between a political figure and his supporters urging the state to criminalize his opponents and a crowd of citizens satirically turning the leader’s language against him https://t.co/GzBjt7WVru— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 28, 2019

And a Megan McArdle LOL problem:

By the way: McArdle, our Lady of Sacred Norms, first gained internet notoriety for advocating real Americans beating up anti iraq war protesters with two by fours.— Alex Hazanov (@alexhazanov) October 28, 2019

But beyond this, “President of the United States” is not a royal title. The idea that because of the office he occupies that the president is inherently worth of respect and cannot be treated with INSOLENCE by mere peons is an absurd, anti-democratic notion. He was booed because he’s highly unpopular, and he deserves to be, and it would be better if he was exposed to the public more:

I’m of the opinion that masses of people booing the president on one of the stupidly few occasions he’s ever been forced to interact with them is in fact an extremely valuable moment for our global standing & anyone who cares about America’s reputation should thank that crowd.— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) October 28, 2019