I think @mtracey is right on a lot of issues-primarily #RussiaGate. With that said, this is an awful take and wreaks of out-of-touch privilege. You don't minimize homophobia & bigotry and tell someone being harassed to "get over it." It doesn't matterhttps://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1136430766144065543 …
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Replying to @JordanChariton
You may want to watch the entire video rather than circulate a truncated clip tweeted by a notorious liar and troll.
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Replying to @mtracey
I did watch the whole thing. You minimized a gay journalist being harassed over his sexual orientation by Crowder as part of a "screaming hoard of moralizing media people who want their own preferences and whims to be reflected in the policy of the company." Someone calling for
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Replying to @JordanChariton
OK. Still, bad move to circulate a clip from this disgusting, disgraced liar. Maza is a professional adult journalist working for a major media company who claims he needs "protection" from YouTube because some juvenile asshole (Crowder) mocked him. Yeah, I find that pathetic.
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I don't really see what who tweeted the clip has to do with WHAT YOU SAID IN YOUR VIDEO. You're deflecting now. And again, you continuing to minimize him as just being thin-skinned at being "mocked" shows you clearly don't get the difference bw juvenile mockery and open bigotry
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I wrote an entire column on the subject here, feel free to read. I'm against the infantilization of journalism, where adults cry to "teachers" to impose disciplinary action on their adversaries, and pressure platforms to more stringently regulate speechhttps://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1136705807553310722 …
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Michael TraceyVerified account @mtraceySteven Crowder is an unfunny blowhard, but Carlos Maza is professional adult journalist employed by a major media organization -- not some kid being bullied on a playground. The idea that YouTube needs to "protect" him is ridiculous and infantile https://spectator.us/steven-crowder-carlos-maza-playground/ …Show this thread5 replies 2 retweets 20 likes -
Replying to @mtracey
Michael--you are not getting the point. IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT THE GUY IS A JOURNALIST. He is a gay man in America being attacked for his sexual orientation by a host with a big platform. You are fixated on the media aspect. I am focused on the bigotry and harassment.
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Replying to @JordanChariton
Yeah, it does matter that he's a journalist. That makes him a public figure. He's not some random citizen. Part of his job, which a major media company pays him for, is to make provocative political statements online. That means you have to expect mockery and ridicule in return.
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Replying to @mtracey
Harassment & homophobia IS NOT THE SAME THING as mockery and ridicule. Mockery and ridicule is mocking Wolf Blitzer for being a human snail who fluffs corrupt politicians pillows for a living. Publicly castigating someone with homophobic slurs is not mocking or being provocative
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it's being openly bigoted toward another human being---doesn't matter if it's a journalist or a garbage collector. I think your disdain for the coastal-cocktail-crowd-PR-flacks-pretending-to-be-journalists (which I share) is making you lose sight of the fact that bigotry is a
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a toxic thing that should be fought against in society---even if toward a member of a group in society we don't like. For example, I can't stand
@donlemon. I think he's an awful "journalist." But if Steven Crowder was calling him the N-word on YouTube...I'd say he should be3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes -
penalized. It's really not that complicated Michael. I think in your quest to be the contrair to everything you've kind of lost of sight of the difference between daily mocking and ridicule of a public figure with open hatred and bigotry.
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