Comedy Gold On Gold

After you click through the image at Hot Air to watch the hilarious video of the NYU take down, drop down into comments at NYU Local where the video is. The fellow with the camera, SDS member and non-NYU student Alex Lotorto drops in to defend himself against the mockery and abuse. Also the discussion of corporate water Bad, Apple Macbooks Good is quite compelling. America just doesn't make student resistance movements like they once did, I guess.

Hey its me, the douchebag.

And by the way, my camera was a mechanism that probably prevented brutality like happened at New School in December where they weren’t on top of that as much…the black trench coat guy threw me an elbow and I was trying to keep a level head as people were panicking…the rest of the negotiations absolve me…I’m going to post those soon for you to poo poo. NYPD has used violence on protesters in the past. We were lucky NYPD didn’t get in the night before or else you might have been scrubbing our blood off the walls like at Columbia in 1968.

oo and btw, using corporations’ stuff to liberate yourself isn’t a contradiction. Organizing also has to be accessible…if I told you I don’t use computers, would you listen to me and join my cause?

Comments

[Mr. Arbouthnot]

One should take the time to read Alex Lotorto's "essay". A more vapid collection of cliches would be impossible to find. It is quite revealing of the shallowness of "thought" possesed by thouse of his ilk.

[Alex Lotorto]

hey, it's Alex.

My quick responses and Op-Ed in an online magazine are not representative of my academic writing style. You really should apply some context to the work I'm doing. Since you obviously have an affinity for googling names, perhaps you'll find some articles interesting that I organize with a bunch of ultra-conservative high school students in the Pike County Youth Coalition for accountability in their school board and civic engagement.

I'm from a small town in PA and I hate how academic elitists use inaccessible vocabulary. Many white working people from my small town vote for plain-spoken politicians and distrust ivory tower spawn because they want leaders who don't try to dominate them with qualifiers like 'quite' and 'vapid'.

I choose my work carefully based on what I feel is strategic for helping to build the worldwide student power movement at schools that are, and have always been the frontier for progress.

Remember, there isn't a single progressive reform in our country that hasn't come from a movement applying pressure to the political system and shifting paradigms based in oppression towards virtues of the oppressed. All of those movements used tactics illegal at the time to oppose unjust laws and enforce ethics they felt should become law. That is the nature of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Students are the ethical barometer of our society and we're telling people like you that there's a storm coming.

[Splunge]

Alex, you're young, so a lack of self awareness is forgivable. But I'm not sure I've seen a worse case than yours. My advice to you would be to forget causes for a while, and look at yourself. Who you are when no one is looking at you, and whether you genuinely like and respect that person.

Your every word sounds and reads like you are in a rush to look at anything outside, to avoid being alone with yourself. I speak charitably. Less charitably, there is a a reason why you seem to generate comedy for grownups every time you open your mouth. Look at what you just posted. RIGHT AFTER you talk about how you value plain-spoken, accessible speech, you say:

"I choose my work carefully based on what I feel is strategic for helping to build the worldwide student power movement at schools that are, and have always been the frontier for progress."

which is some of the most obfuscated, jargon-laden, meaning-free garbage I've ever seen. I must tell you that your last sentence is equally laughable. You have a lot of learning to do before you should even think of trying to preach to anyone.

[Krieg Saxon]

>> "I'm from a small town in PA and I hate how academic elitists use inaccessible vocabulary..."

I guess the irony is lost on you then.

[Techie]

"I assert that “freedom is participation in power” according to the Greek philosopher Cicero."

http://muhlenbergadvocate.com/wordpress/?p=68

Someone should have been paying more attention at college. Cicero was Roman.

[Scott]

His comedy is so natural, unforced. It just flows. I would love to see him in person - perhaps at The Comic Strip on 2nd Ave.?

[Cerebral Paul Z.]

Students are the ethical barometer of our society. Looks like foggy weather in store. (Alex, dude, it's not your vocabulary; it's your sentence structure.)

[David in San Diego]

"His comedy is so natural, unforced. It just flows. I would love to see him in person - perhaps at The Comic Strip on 2nd Ave.?"

Right fater he graduates from Muhlenberg.

[seekeronos]

We have a couple of word for writers like Al-Qaeda Alex over there:

"Pompous Ass".

[Uncle Jefe]

Sounds like this loser is practicing to become a human resources rep or a marxist organizer...but that's redundant...
Certainly working on all the vocabulary.
Consensus, facilitator, paradigm, context, elitists, power movement, progress, oppression, tactics, unjust laws...and almost all of these simply from his posting above!!
Sad. This guy thinks students are the barometer for the coming storm.
Due to idiots like him, obama was elected, and the storm has arrived.
Keep on speaking truth to power, hero.