Today I heard that Nick Fuentes, the guy who said right after the election, "Your body, my choice," got doxxed. If you don't know what doxxing is, it's a despicable practice of putting a person's personal information online so they will be harassed, and it usually happens to women, often Jewish women who are doing investigative reporting. As you can imagine, these women often have to flee their homes. I don't condone doxxing, or sinking to the level of the other side, but I did feel a little shiver of schadenfreude when reading that Mr. Fuentes was whining about how he now has to live in fear. In addition, men online are challenging him to a boxing match. How can it not feel like karma that a man who has spent all his time instilling fear in women and minorities now feels it himself? I guess our side has finally gotten sick of playing by the rules when the other side said, "Rules are for suckers!" This isn't going to make for peace, ultimately, but right now it doesn't even feel like peace is possible. After all, this isn't throwing the first punch but simply responding with a harder hit. As someone said of Fuentes, "Play stupid games and win stupid prizes."
Can you believe these flowers were blooming today?
What does this mean? It means I'm at a high A2 level in French. Which has something to do with a test, like our grad students have to take the B1 level test in German. It measures your fluency. I barely feel fluent in English anymore - I'm always like, "What's the word for this again?" - so it feels unlikely that I would be fluent in French, but maybe I should take the test and find out. And what would I gain with this knowledge? Bragging rights?
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