God Shed His Grace on Thee
I love the way Miss Teen South Carolina cleverly satirizes the dire state of American education by acting like an airhead on TV. She demonstrates her answer to the question in the very way she is answering it. Brilliant.
Please watch:
I saw comments on YouTube that defended her, saying she must be under a lot of pressure, and that it is a contest of beauty and not brains. Sorry, kids, but it doesn't take a whole lot of brains to answer a simple question in Standard English — unless you are part of the problem the question is referring to. I think she should have stopped at "some people don't have maps." At least that made sense and was true.
Labels: America, Geography, People We Don't Like, Privilege, Stupid People, Television
posted by Eric @ 12:16 PM
6 Comments:
OMG saw this today! You know all the other girls are playing this back over and over again on their DVR's and pointing and laughing at her.
This is shocking.
what do you think she thought she said?
did she think the question was really about south africa?
did she win?
It strikes me that what she's doing is very much like a skilled political candidate does: takes a fairly specific question about policy and responds to it with a largely abstract feel-good bromide.
Only she's maladroit, inarticulate and nonsensical. Do you thinks she has a future career in public service?
I thought that, too. I think it's clear in the way she ends her word spew by tossing out that comment about raising up our youth for the future, or whatever it was. Also in her attempted phrasings around "our nation" and "Americans."
Oh my.
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