"Spare" beats the press at its own game: excellent review of the book & US culture...

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143. What does anyone's politics have to do with whether or not they like them?

That is a very, very odd standard to try holding people to.

I don't share the emotional investment in all this. However, I also understand we live in America where emotional attachment to celebrities is a weird thing we do - and these two are tailor made Oprahesque figures of the highest order. So some subset of the population will get invested like they were related or something. Fine.

But an ideological investment strikes me as just bizarre. If I don't care for two celebrities, do I suddenly not want health care for all? Many, many people have already told you dislike for these two does not translate to liking or excusing the royal family or the British tabloids.

It's possible to dislike two different things at the same time for different reasons. I assure you, I do it daily.

Counterpoint: I don't get why liberals or progressives are going to personal bat for two wealthy people who have enjoyed an enormous amount of privilege in all of this. To combat one privilege, we're going to defend another?

Doesn't scan. Like, at all. And that sort of thing seems far more illiberal than someone just not liking anyone involved.