1. To judge by the right-wing freakout over Kevin Williamson you'd think that firing writers over extremist views was unheard of. But in fact Williamson's previous home National Review has repeatedly done that.
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9. The argument for Williamson is he's supposedly a brilliant stylist. De gustibus non est disputandum. But Joseph Sobran was also a very stylish writer, one of the very best National Review has ever had.
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10. True, Sobran was an anti-Semite & a racist. But he wasn't fired for that. He was fired for criticizing Buckley. How is that defensible? Where was the movement calling for justice for Sobran?
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...and Ann Coulter and (for ideologically inverse reasons) Christopher Buckley.
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Some of the freakout is over their own careerist intrests, but much of it seems to genuine horror that “kill all women” is a beyond the pale argument in modern centrist discourse.
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Because there's a difference between judging someone on the central themes of their body of work, and, well, this (but you know this): https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/kevin-williamson-thought-criminal/ …
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Indeed! To be fair, it’s not that KW wants his coworkers who had abortions dead, it’s just that he wishes they had been forced by the state on pain of death to bear their children, like his mother was.
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The real point is that Williamson was a bad fit for The Atlantic & vice versa and it's a wonder neither of them realized it from the start. Firing him was just a PR move but that The Atlantic first considered him suitable at all speaks volumes as to what dictates its priorities.
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He's repeatedly said that abortion should be treated like murder, which in many parts of USA is a capital offense. And indeed, there are politicians arguing for same policy:https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/981509209358553088 …
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