I don’t know her reasoning, but Jezebel writer Kylie Cheung has determined to be the nasty, America-hating leftist from central casting. A feminist writer might consider being a caricature.
In an August 15 piece about a Netflix movie, Cheung apparently just can’t seem to control herself. Purple Hearts is a romantic-com.
This movie takes place during the Iraq War. It focuses on a lefty, female musician with diabetes who is accompanied by a conservative marine active duty. They don’t like each other, but enter a marriage of convenience so she can access military healthcare and he gets some perks out of being married. Of course they end up falling in love …
I haven’t seen it and couldn’t care less about it. Cheung on the other side is extremely offended by it’s existence. How could she abide “a movie that pretty blatantly romanticizes U.S. military occupation in Iraq and somehow even the United States’ violent privatized healthcare system?”
Our “violent privatized health system?” Cheung must be a blast at parties.
Name Purple Hearts itself is a clever little pun referencing the blending of their “blue” and “red” politics — Cassie is a liberal feminist and Luke is, well, someone who is shipping off to help kill Iraqi people.
So … that’s what she thinks of U.S. military personnel. But wait, there’s more! The flick is:
One of Luke’s fellow Marines makes a toast to “hunting down some Goddamn Arabs.” The line itself seems like a pretty accurate representation of the U.S. military—I’d argue the real problem is the extent that the movie implicitly and explicitly justifies military presence in Iraq as somehow protecting the U.S., rather than just colonizer behavior 101 that’s swallowing up $1 trillion in federal funding, while kids rack up school lunch debt.
Yes, left-wingers really do use phrases like “colonizer behavior.” Elsewhere, she scoffs “Both sides-ing the U.S. military occupation of Black and brown countries is … a choice.”
(Whaddaya think, is Cheung’s armpit hair braided or just dyed green?)
In truth, Cheung deserves our sympathy. America, her America, is indeed a very dark place.
We’re living through unprecedentedly violent times, between routine state violence in the U.S. in the form of racist killings by police; abortion bans rupturing the health system; inaccessible life-saving medications; and, of course, close to 1 million people killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan since 9/11.
Now let’s look: We have contempt for the military. Healthcare grousing, check. Social justice buzzwords that are stupid, check. Racist cops, check. Healthcare is abortion, check. Our evil foreign policy, check. This is all in just a few hundred words on a romance comedy.
Lefties are fun, aren’t they?
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