Yeah, you got me, cancel culture is real -- one guy got fired under dubious circumstances. But I still think it's a little bit less significant than cops killing hundreds, Covid-19, the looting of the economy and climate change. That's just me.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Yes, everyone agrees with you on that. It's an unremarkable thing to say, a cheap point.
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Replying to @AliceFromQueens
I'm pretty sure everyone doesn't agree on that and there are people obsessed with a largely fictitious cancel culture who ignore real problems.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @AliceFromQueens
I kinda think that a journalist being browbeaten into creepy groveling apologies for interviewing a black BLM supporter who thinks that crime within the black community is also a problem. But apparently it's just fine in your book.
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Replying to @CathyYoung63 @AliceFromQueens
Let's just say I don't agree with that characterization of what happened.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @AliceFromQueens
Question: Do you think it's healthy to have a media climate in which any journalist, especially a non-black one, will hesitate to allow someone to air the sort of opinion that Fang was ripped to shreds for platforming?
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Replying to @CathyYoung63 @AliceFromQueens
What's unhealthy is that I've never been in newsroom or publication where there were more than (at best) a tiny sprinkling of Black reporters and editors. And I've published widely.
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Why the dodge? Cathy's q is central to the debate. I would've editorialized the interview because I wouldn't want to be canceled and because "black-on-black crime" is an idiotic concept but then I'd be "speaking over" a black person as wokes would say (and with reason).
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Did he use the phrase "black-on-black crime"?
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He didn't? What did Lee get canceled for? Brb watching the video...
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I think it's a mistake to think that it was just one tweet that caused this (just as it is a mistake to think it was just the Cotton op ed that got Bennet into trouble).
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What evidence do you have for believing that it was more than one tweet--for which he did a needless gunpoint-apology, of course?
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(Or am I getting the Shor and Fang threads crossed here?)
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