Fantastic: Lefty commenter at The Atlantic thinks National Mall is an Actual Mall

by Stephan Tawney on December 12, 2011

Blind anti-capitalism at a lefty rag that supposedly attracts those intellectual betters on the other side of the aisle.

The article in question deals with the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. A reader thinks the piece is overlooking a key problem with the memorial:

Or maybe because it’s at a mall? You seem to gloss right over that. The memorial is a disgusting corporate perversion of MLK’s legacy and twisting it into a ploy to draw people to a mall.

Here‘s a photo of the National Mall, just in case you’re amongst the 1 or 2% of the population that doesn’t know the “National Mall” isn’t a shopping mall.

In fairness, I used to think it was a mall with stores, too. You know, when I was seven. No doubt the intellectually-challenged yet anti-capitalist commenter who displayed such brilliance is an Occupy Wall Street supporter. That’s about the caliber of intellect the movement draws.



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