The unthinkable has just happened to actress/activist/unhinged feminist Ashley Judd. She recounted the horrors on Facebook of an old man approaching her at a recent University of Kentucky basketball game and asking for a picture. After a few pleasantries, the elderly man dared to say, “We like Trump” and went on his way. Judd felt threatened by the man’s harmless statement and said it made her “very sad” and “scared.”
Curiously, her post was hashtagged “#NoPoliticsHere” and it pined for a politically “neutral space.” See, Judd wants a safe space from politics when its inconvenient for her, like at her beloved Wildcats games. But give her a microphone and a stage in the middle of a Washington, D.C. road, and she has no problem shouting things like, “I didn’t know devils could be resurrected, but I feel Hitler in these streets.” Like Matt Vespa joked at Townhall, Judd apparently feels Hitler in the bleachers now.
Judd says a college basketball arena is a “unifying” space. That’s odd, since there are two opposing sides shouting at one another and wishing for the other to be absolutely crushed in battle. But consistency is hard for liberals.
But then that “devil” appeared:
An older man with white hair came up to me at my seat today at a basketball game. He said "May I take your picture? I said "Yes." And before I could offer for him to be in the picture with me, 6 inches from my face, he took my picture with his phone. He said "I'm from Big Stone gap." I said, "I love Big Stone Gap! What a beautiful town, I loved making the movie there." I went on to say how good the cooking is, mentioning, of course, the pineapple upside down cake and pumpkin pie!
In my mind I was getting ready to ask him about the national parks and if he ever spends time in especially the Thomas Jefferson National Park – but something inside of me was already clenching and I concluded by simply saying "I like Big Stone Gap."
He said to me with open hostility as he was backing away, "We like Trump."
As Vespa noted in his article on the matter, Big Stone Gap is in Wise County, Virginia where nearly 80 percent of the vote was for the Republican ticket. So, yeah, they do like Trump. But the real tell, here, is in the disdain Judd exhibited when describing her feelings about this man after the encounter. She automatically crowned him Grand Wizard of the KKK for having an opinion that didn’t match hers:
I could've easily retorted to this man, for example, with "Well, I know everything I need to know about you now, Sir, you voted with the KKK."
Or perhaps another shot, such as "Well, I voted with the popular vote which you lost by the widest margin in American history." And dragged in his charming town like he had – "sorry to discover Big Stone gap is full of misogynists like you."
And his "we" in "we like trump-" he's one guy and invoking the royal "we" is a tactic used to intimated. And I could have said, "We? Half the folks didn't vote; and more than half who did voted the other way. Pull out the issues check list and show me who your threatening "we" is, person by person.
But I didn't.
Instead, I turned to my uncle who, by the way, is a Baptist preacher and a Democrat - yes, those things occur in the same person and in the same family, - and said "I need a hug."
Of course, Judd painted herself as the tolerant, “friendly” one and the man as “angry,” “aggressive,” “rude,” and “disrespectful.” She even assumed he did something “undignified with the picture” or “was just a pretense so he could say something menacing to me.”
“We like Trump” is menacing? Pretty sad when that’s trigger warning-worthy. Her rant continued:
I also feel both for myself and everyone else who has both participated in and is on the receiving end of a hostile act like this which seeks to intimidate. It's not nice. I'm so sorry that our public spaces can be like this.
Yeah, us too:
Read her full post below:
