Reflections on Stupid White Men: Toward a political mapping of stupidity

This piece drew me to consider issues of power and identity.

-Where stupidity would normally be considered a negative identity, it is interesting to note that America has been able to powerfully reappropriate it, to give it an additional, more positive context- something that perhaps a more marginalised group would not be "permitted" to do.
Moreover it reveals a confidence in the use of this power.

-Clearly there are levels at which the guise of stupidity can and cannot be used, that it is employed domestically suggests that it is something that the American public genuinely responds to.

-The place of stupidity in creating a sense of redemption, reconciliation- simplicity at the base of therapuetic community, which America has historically and powerfully deployed as a response to trauma.