Con-Trolling

January 26, 2022

“Owning the libs” is a political strategy used by some conservatives that focuses on upsetting political liberals. Users of the strategy emphasize and expand upon culture war issues intended to be divisive to provoke a reaction in others, according to Wikipedia. More recently, the strategy is associated with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. This method was adopted by the alt-right and alt-lite as a form of trolling and antagonism in the mid/late 2010s.

Which begs the question. How would one “own the conservatives?” Then it came to me. President Biden has promised to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. Many qualified candidates have been mentioned except one. I would like to nominate Anita Hill. Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a university professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.

I call it “con-trolling.”