The prospect of Bari Weiss in Australia is, frankly, terrifying. She loves reactionary hot takes & Australian media is as reactionary as it gets in anglophone world.
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Around the time of that tweet, I also re-tweeted tweet below. Guess what: I do not literally believe that that Bari Weiss is being transported to Australia like a penal colonist.https://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarviss/status/1026528608330936320 …
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Earlier today I made tweet below. Guess what? I don't actually believe Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Justin Trudeau "We'll 9/11 your ass!"https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1026936808100253701 …
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In like my writing, I like to use the full range of my (admittedly limited) voice, which includes irony, hyperbole, sarcasm, & even invention. I tend to trust my readers can pick up difference between that & my more sincere voice. 99% of the time they can.
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With this offending tweet, I made it yesterday and the immediate response (from my normal set of readers) was calm awareness of that it was a jibe that mixed irony & hyperbole.
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But suddenly today I'm getting all sorts of readers who are reading it in the most literal possible manner. This is no accident but a direct result of bad faith readers (ahem:
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When The Weekly Standard publishes a parody, they alway stick a big fat label reading "SATIRE" on it. I would like to think that it's possible to make jokes on twitter without resorting to use hand-holding. But maybe not.
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If I'm reading this tweet right,
@conor64 thinks that making a joke at another writer's expense is sneaky & underhanded. Maybe! Maybe the only true nobility is earnestness & I'm a bad person. Mea Culpa.https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1026947154840092672 …Show this thread -
Anyways, if you want to see a genuinely mean-spirited attack on Weiss & New York Times op ed section, far beyond what I would dare, go to
@michelleisawolf, who is much funnier than I amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWj7Q5iPus …Show this thread
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Oh please don't. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. No one really cares and the frog dies.
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By “reading in bad faith,” I assume you mean “not being so charitable as to assume I meant something other than what the words I wrote and my views on the subject about which I wrote them clearly indicate I meant”? This is a silly hill to die on friend
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