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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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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or Kent State...
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The Pentagon was against sending the troops. Only Trump, Cotton and Taibbi liked the idea.
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Hell it isn't the experience with just American police over the last month
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The argument was that it wasn’t clear they would have been worse than the NYPD.
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This completely misses Taibbi's point (as does most of the other criticisms). Taibbi isn't defending Cotton's ideas. Taibbi is defending people who think we should be able to *hear those ideas and *openly debate them.
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Oh, so then Taibbi has just set up a strawman to knock over.
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Especially when we saw peaceful protesters being attacked, unprovoked, with our own eyes live on TV
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One point the military was FOREVER making in Vietnam was that you couldn't tell civilians from insurgents. Christ, they had "acceptable civilian kill ratios"!
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