Left Wingers Height Shame Dan Bovino

Some of you remember when AOC body shamed Stephen Miller's height. (Miller isn't even short btw, which made her comment worse). She then backpedaled and said she views bad tall men as "spiritually short" and good short men as "spiritually tall." This was even worse than her original comment because it proves that she equates good character with tallness and bad character with shortness.

Now, protestors are shaming Dan Bovino for his height. Obviously, Bovino is an abhorrent human being, but if you read the comments, there's absolutely no way you can believe that these so-called left-wing egalitarians don't have a seething hatred for short men as a whole, not just Bovino. They will certainly attempt to argue that they are only referring to Bovino, but proliferating hateful stereotypes and slurs that affect a group that has a disproportionate suicide rate, is paid less statistically speaking, taken less seriously, punished for not meeting the male gender norm of tallness, and generally regarded as untrustworthy is not an indication of only having a distaste for Bovino.

This same narrative happened during the George Floyd protests because people were heightshaming short police officers etc., so this isn't anything new.

Many of us were drawn to The Left because we felt it was an escape from the type of inflammatory, intellectually-immature, hateful rhetoric that The Right prides itself on. However, seeing our supposed allies hypocritically defend certain groups to the death while openly reserving certain male physical characteristics for unlimited vitriol is profoundly disappointing.

In this time when some people on The Right are even waking up to the fact that MAGA exists to benefit Trump only, is it seriously a good strategy to alienate groups of men who face so much vitriol? This is not the way forward.