From Wisconsin Conservative James Wigderson:
Editor’s Note: Goodwin has since called to apologize. – James Wigderson 9/17/18
Just when you thought the Left couldn’t get any lower, they can. A self-described “union thug” reached out to RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson’s minor daughter to criticize him and her school on social media.
Angela Schissler Goodwin, a Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) school teacher who also describes herself as a “MKE liberal,” tracked down Wigderson’s daughter on Facebook and sent her a unsolicited message about her father.
“We are offended by what was said about MPS. We are an MPS family and those insults are reckless generalizations,” Goodwin wrote to James Wigderson’s daughter. “I can’t imagine why he has such mean ideas about a group of people.”
I was expecting far worse, so the hyperbole here really tested my sympathy.
The first line of this piece is ridiculous. In the age of Trump and his fervent, foul supporters, Wigderson is focused on liberals in the mud — not over extreme corruption or dishonesty or violence across a group, but over a single teacher sending a mostly benign message to his daughter through Facebook! And this is supposed to be the new liberal low? Liberals and conservatives alike have done far worse many times before and will continue to do so. But since this became personal, it suddenly became a terrible “premeditated” crime committed by an “evil soul.” Liberals really are the scum of the Earth, huh?
Additionally, Wigderson seizes upon Goodwin’s “union thug” self-description for obvious reasons, even though she likely uses the label in defiance of conservatives calling union members in general thugs. That’s fair, I suppose, but so is the criticism he received for what he wrote about the “little convicts.” The context of Deontay Long does not change the implication of the sentence, which is that the students are made up of similar people. If that was not his meaning, he should have chosen different words.