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Over the last week the right-wing rage machine has manufactured some astonishingly juvenile controversies. And that’s saying something, considering we’re talking about the same conservative movement that, within recent memory, kvetched about Santa Claus' race and M&M candy cartoons' perceived lack of sex appeal. Even against those embarrassing benchmarks, the last week of right-wing whining has been remarkably dumb — and bigoted, to boot.
So the outrage seemed like an obvious attempt to inflame that tension by framing LSU as rabble-rousing social justice activists, much like conservatives did with Colin Kaepernick years ago. Some people online accused LSU’s team of “wokeness,” a hilariously absurd claim to anyone who knows anything about LSU’s conservative coach Kim Mulkey. Louisiana Gov.
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