What the Recent Ellen Snafu Can Teach Us About Class, Privilege and Being Woke

Relentless positivity and unearned kindness are for the privileged. The marginalized don’t have such luxuries.

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The recent Ellen flap was one of the more interesting developments of 2019 thus far. I was surprised it managed to have legs. Everyone had something to say about the whole situation, some negative, and some positive.

If you don’t know what happened, a couple of weeks ago, Ellen addressed images of her hanging out with former President George W. Bush at a Dallas Cowboys football game.

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I guess she realized how it looked that she, a woman who is supposedly for LGBTQ rights, was hanging out with a man who, during his time as president, was horrible on such issues on top of being an (unprosecuted) war criminal.

Ellen addressed the issue on her talk show during her monologue and had this to say:

“We’re all different and I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s okay that…