1. The newsroom uprising against James Bennet at the New York Times, along with media controversies about racism, has led the the usual handwringing from the usual suspects about PC, SJWs, safe spaces, blah blah blah. A new entry into this discourse is @mtaibbi.
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4. "No quarter" means "kill them all." Insurrectionists means "this is a civil war." The Times op ed was a whitewashed version of Cotton's idea, one that allowed himself to present a respectable face to polite company.https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267448171636174848 …
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5. Of course Cotton walked back the tweet & said "no quarter" just means being hardline. But was was using the eliminationist language commonly used to egg on a massacre, i.e. "Jakarta is coming"https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267459561675468800 …
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6. Also it's amazing that Taibbi accepts at face value the idea that the army would only go after criminals, not protestors. Is the American military really skilled at distinguishing between civilians & military targets? Is that the experience of Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan?
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7. More thoughts here on pundits who would rather focus on their culture war fetish than on an American Senator using eliminationist rhetoric against American civilians.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-free-speech/ …
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He does in fact say in the piece that Cotton's ideas are bad.
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Sure but Taibbi claims Cotton is not saying "let's bring in the military to overrun the protestors," when that is clearly what he's doing: intimidating using the threat of violence. Taibbi buys into weasel words that promote fascist violence.
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“No quarter” is just a military expression you use before Fort Pillow or Wounded Kneepic.twitter.com/bQgEK3ASfr
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this tweet doesn't make sense
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Why shouldn’t this idea be debated?
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