5. The same disingenuousness characterizes Williamson's views (if we want to call it that) on punishing abortion. According to Williamson whole controversy hangs on "a six-word, four-year-old tweet" & one podcast.
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6. Here's what Williamson's account leaves out. After his first tweet, he was repeatedly challenged on twitter & he stuck fast to his position that abortion was an offence worthy of execution. https://storify.com/AngryBlackLady/kevin-williamson-s-tweets-re-abortion …
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7. Moreover, by Jeffrey Goldberg's account, when he first discussed abortion tweet with Williamson he was told it was a one off but subsequently (upon listening to podcast & talking to Williamson) concluded this was Williamson's view.pic.twitter.com/vmL7Wm2aKQ
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8. Goldberg's account (which Williamson neither addresses nor refutes) makes clear that the cause for firing was wrong impression created that tweet was merely "an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it." I.e. lying.
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9. Williamson is also very mad that people wrote articles criticizing him without interviewing him. I find this a baffling objection.pic.twitter.com/795TWc1V1U
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10. Williamson is a public writer, so people can reasonable judge him by his wriitng. It's normal to judge writers, even controversial ones (say Ta-Nehisi Coates or Noam Chomsky) based on their writing without interviewing them.
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11. Even a lesser light like myself gets criticized (as it happens in the pages of Williamson's old magazine National Review) without anyone bothering to interview me. Which is ok. It's fair to judge me by my words. Williamson as well.
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12. But, as it happens, after Williamson was fired from Atlantic (and hence newsworthy) I wrote to him and asked for a Q&A in New Republic to discuss his view. He rejected me in vehement terms, insulting both me & TNR.
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13. My favorite part of the exchange where I politely offered a Q&A where Williamson could explain his views at length in TNR is when he called me and the magazine "mosquitos"
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Let's just say I've crossed him off the list of potential members of the Sarah Jones Fan Club.
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