Liberal commentator Melissa Harris Perry, who some drunk serious people call one of America’s “foremost public intellectuals,” made a ludicrous comment today that really summed up how average hard-working Americans view the political left.
MNSBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry’s odd interjection about hard work, slavery, and single moms made the rounds this week, where she interrupted her conservative guest, Alfonso Aguilar, on her show after he said that Rep. Paul Ryan (now Speaker Ryan) is a “hard worker.” Pretty much Perry told Aguilar that he needed to be “super careful” about how we used the term “hard worker because it might microaggress slaves.
“I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like,” she said. “So, I feel you that he’s a hard worker. I do. But in the context of relative privilege, and I just want to point out that when you talk about work-life balance and being a hard worker, the moms who don’t have health care who are working.”
Aguilar said he understood that, but added that not every Republican thinks that working class women are “sucking off the system”
Harris-Perry’s comment demonstrates the catastrophic state of American liberalism, where one can’t even begin a sentence without a thesis level analysis of whether or not the subject and the verb come within fifty miles of racism, sexism, or economic inequality. Most ordinary Americans recognize this is more about Harris-Perry getting pats on the back from her similarly psychopathic friends. Thankfully, they’re as repulsed by it as liberals are by the term “hard work.”