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If you are somehow still in doubt as to the degree of division in America around matters of politics, ideology, and especially race and identity, you needn’t look further than a question that popped up yesterday on Quora.
Quora (for those who don’t know) is a social media platform dedicated to crowdsourcing answers to participants’ questions. Questions like: “How do I write the perfect college essay?” Or: “What matters more, professional accomplishment or close friends?”
And of course, questions about all matters political.
Sometimes the queries are absurd, like: “Is it true Donald Trump has accomplished more than any president in history?” Or, “How will my life be worth living if I don’t get into an Ivy League school?” But occasionally they reveal a genuine interest in substantive explanation, as was the case yesterday, when I received an e-mail blast from the system, alerting me to a new question in search of a reply. To wit:
“Why does the MAGA hat offend so many people?”
It’s a question to which an awful lot of folks appear in need of an answer.
In January, when the boys from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School were caught on video…
