DUKE: Are Nurses Okay?
Hey y’all, welcome back to Unfit to Print.
A relatively short one today because I am in snowy Hillsdale, Michigan, preparing to give a speech on “New Media.”
Here we go…
ARE NURSES OKAY?
When Alex Pretti was shot and killed during a scuffle with ICE agents, anti-ICE activists raced to lionize him.
He was a NURSE!
He was protecting a woman who was pushed!
He was merely doing what his training said to do!
HE SAVED LIVES!
Never mind the AI-doctored images of him that circulated after the shooting giving him a fresh tan, bigger muscles, whiter teeth, a sharper jawline, a smaller nose. It was like catnip for liberal women, something straight out of BookTok: a handsome alpha male with a gun in his waistband — usually ick — but decidedly progressive sensibilities — okay, yes.
Enough has been said about his actions on that day. I want to talk about the invocation of Pretti’s nursing career.
Much like Renee Good was a MOTHER and how could you kill a MOTHER, Pretti was a NURSE. He was THE BEST OF US.
I call........
