Trump won the working class despite his affront to identity politics because he told them the system was rigged, that free trade was a disaster, that he would drain the swamp and make America great again.
Even after the seizure, though, Black continued his affront against the authorities, deciding to market the seized films as The Federal Five.
His affronts to Islam brought immediate protests from Muslim representatives in France, with Dalil Boubaker, rector of the Paris Mosque, accusing Mr. Houellebecq of inciting "racial and religious hatred" and Mohammed Béchari of the National Federation of French Muslims calling on French intellectuals to denounce Mr. Houellebecq's "baseness".
This has been his philosophy throughout his career, and it is the source of his deeper affront against the entire project of secular, liberal progress, which is rejected in the melancholy of his prose.
His calculated affronts flaunted his impunity as a bona-fide hero of French culture.
We will see if it corrupts Oehlen, stirs in him a supplementary type of rebelliousness, or, as I suspect, makes no practical difference in how his pictures affront the eyes and unsettle the minds of rich and poor alike.
Next time I'm in his room, I'll remind him that those seven weeks worth of laundry, dirty dishes and the pile of garbage he emptied out of his school locker last month and deposited directly onto his floor are an affront to his standards.
The commander in chief, Gen. David Elazar, cancelled his commission, and the army officially termed his statement "an affront to the other commanders" and "a violation of military discipline".
Although the diners said his service was "excellent," the note called his lifestyle an affront to God. "We hope you will see the tip your fag choices made you lose out on, and plan accordingly," the note continued, per to the New Civil Rights Movement.
He termed his imprisonment an affront to free speech and said that it was dangerous for him to discuss his views before he left Austria but that "I think Mel Gibson was right".
Thanks to God)....While we acknowledge [Zenawi's] right to express his views, it is an affront to his government's numerous victims of repression to grant him the privilege to do so on the notable premises of Columbia... Serkalem and Eskinder are absolutely right in their expressions of outraged disapproval of Zenawi's speech at Columbia.
