Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Paging Dr. Freud…
Granted, the latest bit of George Will prattle has been expertly dissected by people more eloquent than I already, but I thought I would point out something that has been missed in all the snarky commentary on the column - something that David Neiwert has a particular expertise in identifying and analyzing.
Don’t believe me? Check out this passage and tell me that it’s not just a little bit eliminationist (emphasis mine):
Under the headline “San Franciscans Hurl Their Rage at Parking Patrol,” the New York Times recently described the verbal abuse and physical violence — there were 28 attacks in 2006 — inflicted on parking enforcement officers in a city that has a surplus of liberalism and a shortage of parking places. Parking is so difficult that George Anderson, a mental health expert, has stopped holding lectures there because his audiences arrive seething about their parking frustrations. Anderson represents the American Association of Anger Management Providers.
A surplus of liberalism? Mr. Will, is there something you’d like to tell us? Do you, in Jerry Duncan-esque manner, wish you had a dirty bomb handy to rid San Francisco of all the liberals? Do you see liberals as “surplus population” to be done away with at some higher authority’s discretion?
Come, George, sit on my (armchair psychiatrist’s) couch…
