I’m annoyed enough lately with the state of the world that I’ve decided it’s time to embrace shunning as an appropriate form of social sanction. Joe Paterno? Shun him. Peter Orszag? Shun him. I could go on.
With that in mind, today we’re going to shun Whitney Blodgett, a student at Princeton who decided that nothing could be funnier than yelling at a bunch of Occupy protestors that, speaking of his buddies, “We’re the 1 percent!” His ever-so-clever buddies followed up with, “Get a job!”
Oh, the revelry! The hijinks! As a friend points out:
You really need to click the article to get a picture of this kid. He’s a freshman, by the way. Nothing like an 18-year-old Ivy League kid, who with a name like “Whitney Blodgett III” is almost certainly a legacy admit, lecturing people on the meritocracy.
Seriously, shun him. And shun his buddies, too.
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30 comments
November 14, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Sifu Tweety
It’s not even original:
November 14, 2011 at 6:21 pm
ari
I think it’s fair to say that we can shun everyone at Harvard. I’m sure you agree.
November 14, 2011 at 6:34 pm
JP Stormcrow
Shun him? I don’t even know him!
November 14, 2011 at 6:55 pm
JP Stormcrow
Not going to link, but a cursory search leads to a bio associated with a sport which, lets just say, fills in the picture. Apparently quite good at the sport. This blog post was the 4th result BTW.
November 14, 2011 at 6:57 pm
ari
Huh, I assumed lacrosse. Looks like I’ve made an ass out of u and me.
November 14, 2011 at 7:14 pm
JWL
Maybe yes, maybe no. no.
Nothing wrong with a good shun, and the high road always has much to recommend it.
Then again, Blodgett (at least) might be better served by being on the receiving end of a good, old fashioned ass kicking. One he’d remember the rest of his life.
It’s a conundrum.
November 14, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Ken Houghton
The Lawrenceville School, where Master Blodgett rowed crew, costs more for a year than most of the downsized car workers were paid. They just lack the correct Linked In connections.
November 14, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Sherri
The bio that JP Stormcrow found also lists young Mr. Blodgett’s personal hero as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
November 14, 2011 at 8:58 pm
ari
Here’s the thing: you want to shout at a bunch of protestors who, very likely, are less privileged than you? Fine, you’re an idiot, but fine, whatever. But then to talk to a reporter and bray about your idiocy? Dude, you have no class at all.
November 14, 2011 at 9:58 pm
JP Stormcrow
For instance, I’d bet he’d laugh during a lecture on slavery.
November 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Robert Halford
Can we just all agree, Princeton is unspeakably horrible? Because it is! Presumably the less a-holish members of the Lawrenceville crew team went elsewhere.
I would bet real money that our friend is related to Harry Blodgett, internet stock fraudster.
November 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Robert Halford
Harry s/b Henry
November 14, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Robert Halford
Damn it, Henry Blodget only has one “t” to his name. There goes that theory.
November 14, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Buce
For more on Blodgett’s identity, go here: http://tinyurl.com/86243kl
November 14, 2011 at 10:41 pm
ari
As golden retrievers everywhere weep, Buce.
November 14, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Robert Halford
OK, a fair amount of wasted time leads me to this:
Which I believe is almost certainly the parentage. I believe that he is a direct descendant of Thomas J. Watson from IBM, and his Dad was a big cheese at Drexel Burnham in the 1980s. Not to detract from his own merits and skills, of course.
November 14, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Robert Halford
See also:
November 14, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Robert Halford
And here we go:
http://www.nysocialdiary.com/node/2316
This is our man! The IBM heir!
November 14, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Robert Halford
Just to summarize this pointless, perhaps overly stalker-y research, our friend Blodgett is the great-grandson of Thomas J. Watson, the grandson of Thomas Watson, Jr., the heir to the IBM fortune, the son of a major investment banker, spent his youth going to things like horse jumping events, and most certainly does not need to “get a job.” He is certainly being truthful when he says he’s part of the 1%.
November 14, 2011 at 11:41 pm
rja
Two thoughts: Do we stalk first, shun later? Or vice versa? Stalking first has revealed how reprehensible this Blodgett is, thus making shunning easier.
Also, oh rich people and their silly hats.
November 15, 2011 at 9:12 am
kevin
Lovely picture of the guy.
I’m impressed the Washington Post photo credit doesn’t identify him as “braying jackass Whitney Blodgett III.”
November 15, 2011 at 11:34 am
eric
I assume after heckling the protesters he and his friends went to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt.
November 15, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Haha!!
So apparently Dad is a scumbag as well. Assault and insider trading. Nice!
http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40214
November 15, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Pauly Shore
I love you, Ari! And I love Unfogged, too! And this blog! You’re all so terrific!
November 15, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Pauly Shore
Shalom, my brothers!
November 15, 2011 at 5:10 pm
eric
That Pauly Shore sure is a nice fella.
November 15, 2011 at 5:35 pm
ari
You’ve reminded me that I haven’t seen Encino Man for a few weeks now. It’s probably time to watch it again. I mean, cinematic masterpiece!
November 16, 2011 at 5:53 am
Pauly Shore
It gives me such a warm feeling of community to hang out here with you.
November 17, 2011 at 10:31 am
oaklove
Douchebag of the day! From today’s NY Times.
November 17, 2011 at 9:50 pm
TF Smith
If only we had a draft; Whitney could become Private Blodgett for 24 months…
I’d expect it would do him a world of good…