Things You Don’t Want to Have to Clarify

There are certain things on planet earth where if I have to clarify that it’s not what you meant, you are probably already screwed. Yevgeny V. Prigozhin has done such a thing. When you are clarifying to the media that he wasn’t actually trying to storm Moscow and overthrow the government you are basically saying “I’ll be poisoned or thrown out of a window before the baseball season is over”. If you have to clarify that, contrary to appearances, you weren’t in fact trying to overthrow a sovereign state, you are in a shit ton of trouble.
Additionally, I’ve heard people claim that their sporting of blackface was “actually a tribute, like a celebration or an honor”. You’re an idiot one but two, you just need to shut up and take the hate. Because there is no one who was outraged at you for wearing blackface who now totally gets it, it was a tribute. That Venn diagram doesn’t overlap.