This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become.
“Right now, we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word computer is. They don’t know, they don’t know these things.” —New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, during a Monday interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference
If recent polling is any indication, it seems pretty clear to everyone that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul could be doing a better job of running her state. If I may offer a little advice, maybe she could start by understanding New York City a little better—and by being just a biiiiiiit less racist.
AdvertisementOur setting for Hochul’s latest offense is the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, where the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference kicked off on Monday. This year, the dayslong “Davos of North America” has brought together a wide range of prominent voices (government bureaucrats, business executives, internet trolls, etc.) to address the theme of “Shaping a Shared Future”—meaning, per the institute’s website, an opportunity to “unite our catalytic community to tackle” pressing global issues like regional warfare, climate change, and artificial intelligence, and to “make strides toward a world where our combined efforts yield transformative results.”
Pretty classic pablum from the think tank started by Michael Milken, who’s perhaps best known for turbocharging innovations in securities fraud that earned him a government-imposed lifetime ban from the industry and a brief prison sentence back in the 1990s. (President Donald Trump, whose treasonous administration members continue to be welcome conference........