When it Comes to Being Capsized, Any Island Will Do
A few weeks ago, a video went viral on Youtube with Guam as the object of its existence. A Democratic Congressman from Georgia, Hank Johnson, during a hearing made a statement to the effect that, if the planned military buildup of Guam were to go through, was there a threat that the island might capsize and flip over? Although the Congressman later claimed that he meant it as a joke and wasn't serious about Guam capsizing with the addition of 80,000 more people to the island in such a short time, for the next few weeks, videos of him making this remark collected several million views, and he became a favorite target of the mainstream and conservative media. One of the reasons that I didn't pay any attention to this, or write about it on this blog is because, despite the fact that the signifier Guam was being thrown around left and right for weeks, and suddenly appearing in the tweets or mouths of those who otherwise might have gone their entire lives without uttering it, it