All too often, I see well-meaning progressives taking action I think is not particularly effective, like "protests" aimed at poorly-selected targets. Or poetry slams or other random performance to raise "awareness" without being tied to specific action. Or marches that divert resources from more immediate work.
Sometimes, I get concerned that this kind of work will ultimately seriously hurt the progressive movement, and that what I see as strategic errors will give anti-everything forces a leg up.
And then I see things like that today has been declared "National Pro-Life Cupcake Day."
scha⋅den⋅freu⋅de [shahd-n-froi-duh]
–noun: satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
It's nice to see our opposition do equally dumb things sometimes, and makes me a little less worried about the state of things.
Not that I'm generally in the business of giving advice to the anti-choice movement, but what the hell do cupcakes have to do with abortion? What the hell are cupcakes going to do to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies? How the hell do cupcakes change anyone's mind on reproductive policy?!
Keep eating your cupcakes, antis. While you're doing that, I'm going to donate to do something more productive (and when I'm competing with cupcakes, that's a pretty low bar).
Friday, October 9, 2009
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I can't help but remember some old 2008 campaign posts. Wasn't one called "Vote Yes for Cupcakes?" Perhaps they stole the idea of pro-life cupcake day from you? Who knew you have copyrighted that?
The lovely and talented Anna gets credit for that one. That's the great thing about antis -- you can make up the most seemingly ridiculous joke in the world and they will somehow find a way to make it real.
Anna coined the term in the comment thread here, which was from almost exactly a year ago.
I didn't even make the connection between Cupcake Day and Vote Yes for Cupcakes, but that's hilarious. I guess imitation (of sorts) is the sincerest form of flattery.
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