CROTON'S HALL MONITOR WANNABEES, A GAZETTE LETTER

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The following letter (and photo) appears in this week's Gazette:

Croton’s Hall Monitor Wannabes

February 14, 2022

The following letter was published in this week’s issue of the Gazette.

To the editor:
We have become accustomed to the daily excuses as to why some people are exempt from mask requirements, the winner being Los Angeles’ Mayor Garcetti saying it was ok for him to go maskless since he can hold his breath.

Criticism from the common folk is met with throwback 50s sexism from Ms. Ocasio-Cortez (“Republicans are mad they can’t date me”) or that favorite go-to of charging your opponents with racism, as when Stacey Abrams’ spokeswoman fired back by claiming that a maskless Ms. Abrams was being criticized because she was at a Black History Month event.

The power dynamic is even more clear at gatherings of the elite, such as campaign fundraisers at the Michelin-starred French Laundry ($300 per person, wine not included) or the Met Gala ($30,000 per ticket). At the French Laundry, VIPs such as the Governor of California partied maskless while the servant waiters humbly toiled in masked deference. At the Met Gala, the omnipresent Ms. Ocasio-Cortez staged a scene worthy of Marie Antoinette: an over-the-shoulder smirk at the camera, while at her feet (literally) a masked “Black woman immigrant designer” fitted AOC in a gown logoed “Tax The Rich.”

By those standards, the Croton government photo this week is tame stuff. But the point is the same. READ MORE HERE.