Get the latest gossip
In Eureka Day, the Jabs Are Verbal, Too
A send-up of the leftist battles over vaccination and the weaponization of kindness.
They bring artisanal scones to their meetings in the school’s sunny library, where the Social Justice section is front and center (and twice as big as Fiction) and the walls are adorned with posters of Michelle Obama and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Our Core Operating Principle here is that everyone should Feel Seen by this community,” offers Eli (Thomas Middleditch), parent of Tobias and casually super-wealthy former tech bro, in a debate over whether the school should add “Transracial Adoptee” to the current options for race on its application. What would at first seem to be a medium-stakes situation, concerning but manageable, quickly snowballs into a full-blown catastrophe: “Wait,” types a parent into the Zoom comments thread when Don attempts to hold a digital town hall (sorry, “Community Activated Conversation”) about the outbreak, “HALF the school is antivaxxers?
Or read this on VULTURE