may be true w/in the essays, but top-level article titles and text are communicating something different.
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Always good to read the articles! I mean, I think liberals and leftists also often over-react to newspaper headlines, when text tells a more complex story.
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these headlines establish a direction/mindset for the whole project - as they no doubt were intended to
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @HeerJeet and
LOL yeah it's all a conthpiwathy to get us to hate America by not reading articles. Your argument is that Linker is an intellectual titan with much integrity because he wrote an essay criticizing... headlines, and such bravery should be seen as intellectual rigor at it's finest?
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Replying to @Darwiniancat @HeerJeet and
I laud Linker for giving an honest and well-supported response.
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @Darwiniancat and
You would not believe the grief I've been getting for suggesting that NY Times over-reached in its conclusions, while I agree w/ need to present this history.
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @Darwiniancat and
How can you know if NY Times over-reached its conclusions since, as you admit, you haven't read the articles?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Darwiniancat and
I take the statements in the headlines and accompanying text at face value.
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @Darwiniancat and
But you can't evaluate the evidence and arguments which are presented not in the headlines but in the text. I literally don't know how to respond to someone who has strong opinions about stuff he refuses to read.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Darwiniancat and
I have strong opinions about the headlines. They put off off so much that I have no desire to read the articles. That has to be a failure of some sort by the editors, since I would normally be inclined to read such articles.
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The 1619 articles are doing very well in terms of traffic (and the print copy of the magazine is selling out at news-stands). So is it possible that your allergy to the headlines is more about you than about readers in general?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Darwiniancat and
Yes, I'm sure that's true - there were loads of people attacking my responses, so good numbers on the agitprop side, no question). Yet people like me are on the side of this cause (though you may not think so, I suppose). That seems like a problem.
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @HeerJeet and
They're interested in attracting interested readers and uninterested in attracting idiots. So you're not part of the target audience and you've been successfully weeded out.
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