1. in terms of these "should they be fired for their tweets & bad opinions" controversies, the one I remain most conflicted about -- I mean genuinely torn -- is Quinn Norton.
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I mean I don't think that "it's possible for a Nazi to otherwise be a good person" is naive—I'm sure many neo-Nazis raise their kids well and hold doors open, but the distinction is that having that belief should regardless disqualify you from a platform at the New York Times.
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That's a strange definition of good person. Serial killers don't kill everyone they meet. They probably did something more helpful than opening does for more folks than they killed. Sometimes, it's a deliberate strategy to avoid suspicion. They are still bad people.
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And yet here you are something something
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The missing piece in your analysis is that she probably spent a lot of time on 4chan and got used to the culture.
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I don't think the bland-ass people the NYT hires in lieu of Quinn, Sarah Jeong, etc. are a great way to sell either, but what do I know.
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The real question is why don't any of these editorial boards get feedback before hiring people. These weren't referendums on whether norton et al. should be fired, but whether they should be hired in the first place.
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She's not naive. She's idealistic. She genuinely thinks being idealisic is utilitarian. It's a viewpoint worthy of respect, even if the results it has aren't what most people - even she, sometimes - find immediately rewarding.
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It's also worth noting that taking that Times job is one time she actually compromised on her principles to try and make a more publicly accepted kind of difference, and boy did it not pay off
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Ad her using the word fag, she is queer. And ad "I consider Weev a friend," the article in which she says that gives a lot of context.
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He was unjustly jailed for something that had nothing to do with his being a Nazi; she defended him and sent him a book in prison.
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