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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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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Somehow leading the charge against political correctness means you are grotesquely thin-skinned and incapable of taking even the mildest criticism
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Going on just a tiny bit too much, you are, young Jeet. Much growing up you have yet to do.
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