The Table of Cruel Non-Binaries: Media Attack on MAGA Influencers at Inauguration Backfires
New York Magazine wanted to avenge Trump’s victory by trying to ridicule his voters, but it hasn’t worked out well. It’s like when the wolf hatches a plan to eat the little bird in the old Disney cartoons. You know the episode will end with the wolf toothless and bandaged from top to bottom, and the little birdie singing happily in its tree. New York Magazine has ended up toothless and bandaged, and the little trump birds are still dancing.
To deliver on the cartoon they had previously designed in the newsroom, they sent their journalist Brock Colyar to cover Trump’s victory weekend parties, and the Power 30 Awards, where they paid tribute to the influencers who supported the Republican’s race. The result is “The Cruel Kids’ Table” and it works better as an LSD science fiction tale than as a journalistic chronicle.
Colyar is a gender studies journalist, whatever that is, obsessed with feminism, and who defines himself as non-binary; no one has explained to him that usurping women’s biological space is not precisely feminist but quite the opposite. And, although his banner is ostensibly academic, he often covers parties. Everything about him is confusing and contradictory. Including the result of his bombshell report. He had memorized from home that he was supposed to present right-wing influencers as a herd of supremacists and, since that’s not what he found, he simply omitted even the small detail that the organizer was the brilliant CJ Pearson, a smart guy, blacker than Kamala Harris’s future, along with the beautiful Raquel Debono.
Colyar planned to make a total caricature of the Trumpers. He wanted them all white, alpha males, rosary in hand, bored, and joking about beating up homosexuals. The problem is that he found a party full of beautiful, young people, drinking and dancing happily, giving off all the good vibes in the world. Normal people doing something exceptional: having a good time. Heterogeneous people, which I like better than the word diverse.
For the rest, from that frightening realization that there would be no supremacist history, no fascism, no dogmatism, Colyar’s obsession has been to try to hide the fact that he actually had a great time at the young Trumpers’ party.
It is a pity that so many journalists put ideology before prestige. The fortunate thing about Colyar is that he writes reasonably well. His account is amusing, I even found it funny at times. But when he tries to put himself on the pedestal of the moral superiority of the progressive journalist to please his bosses, perhaps, or readers, perhaps, he falls flat on the party floor and loses every last tooth.
A separate issue is the matter of the cover, which I imagine is the magazine’s decision. Cropping the picture to exclude blacks is even more stupid than going to chronicle a party and talking to everyone but the organizer to avoid having to say he’s black. The cropping of the cover photo to exclude non-whites to save Colyar’s story is so hasty and ridiculous, that they even left out the arm of a black man who was trying to sip his drink. Help! Help! There’s a black arm on the loose at the white supremacist party!
Beautiful people, young people, fun people. Riley Gaines, Debra Lea, Raquel Debono, how could a man be bored there? In the end, the author has fun commenting on the elegant male suits, with their bow ties and neckties, as well as the gorgeous girls, tanned, delightfully coiffed, and dressed like princesses for the occasion. He paints it as if it were a frightening environment that should repulse us, but after reading his account twice, I can only think of one bad thing to say about the party: Why the hell wasn’t I invited?
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