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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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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this fundamentally invalidates taibbi’s point that he wasn’t calling for violence and therefore the op-ed wasn’t out of line.
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I don't understand why my liberal friends seem more interested in making sure that James Bennett loses his job, and less interested in making sure that Tom Cotton never works again.
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yes. and people who study counterinsurgency will tell you that when you designate certain categories of people as killable, those categories invariably expand to include everyone in the subordinated populations out of which protests and social movements emerge
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