“These pins - not the wearing of them or the pictures posted of folks wearing them - are not about safe spaces,” wrote Trump critic Demetria Lucas D’Oyley in an article headlined “Come On, White People: We Need More Than Safety Pins to Make Us Feel Safe” that appeared in The Root. Can’t they find some symbolism just a tad less baby-bottomish? I had hoped they’d wear something a bit tougher, like a needle, or a bloody “Game of Thrones” spike. Safe space, safe pins, get it? Safety pins were once used to secure cloth diapers so baby bottoms wouldn’t get pricked. I thought irony died decades ago, but it insists on reanimating itself. That’s where the safety pins come in.Ī safety pin on your clothing demonstrates solidarity with the anti-Trumpsters, and a shield from shaming. Yet whatever their politics, and as a dad with college tuition bills, skipping midterms for the sake of political tribalism is foolish. In every age, history is full of such poignant teeth gnashing. These are the signs of weak children born to a diseased establishment that’s been overturned.

My only complaints are those primal scream parties on campus and students who asked for postelection counseling. The protests allow the hard left to send a message to Democrats:ĭon’t stray. The anti-Trump protests aren’t exactly spontaneous, are they? They’re organized, perhaps with George Soros’ cash. I’ve realized that those who criticize the young anti-Trump protesters are just as blind as liberal pundits, unable to see through their partisanship. The safety pins are becoming symbols of solidarity for the young on the left who oppose Trump.

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