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I don’t know - I think it’s important we realize how normal these people can seem - they don’t look like monsters, they look like the guy next door. That makes them more scary to me - they are hiding in the open. We are complacent because we think they are easily recognizable.

I'd like to go on record saying that every minority in America has known this for a long time.

Exactly. Pointing out how ‘normal’ they appear isn’t normalizing them. All I could think of as I read the article was about Germany - how often did people think the guy next door was normal only to discover he was a monster?

The NYT went much further than to point out that they look "normal" though. They presented their extreme disgusting views without criticism, treating them with kid gloves as something less than toxic. The article lends itself a very humanizing tone to hate

But shouldn’t you be able to figure that out by reading their disgusting views? NYT gives the facts, which is what journalism does. It’s not an opinion piece, it’s a disclosure.

Ugh - you have a point there. But I see that more as a result of people like FOX giving opinions rather than just facts. People think opinions are fact. Everyone in this thread knows the guy’s beliefs are repulsive- no one needed to point it out to us.

You mean the rag that relentless published false stories on WMD's to promote the war in Iraq?

The same rag that kept pushing Hilary's emails and helped fund Bannon's propaganda documentary "Clinton cash"?

*Hillary

And the same rag that falsely claimed there's no connection between Trump and Russia shortly before the election.

And the same rag that propped up sexist misogynists reporters to non stop Hillary bash before and after the election as their star reporters.

The same rag that spends more time talking about Bill Clinton’s problems with women than Trumps? And more time talking about Hillary’s “inability” to get over the election than Trumps? That rag?

The same rag that meticulously chronicled abuse of power by Russian authorities, apple’s unethical business practices around the world, the failures of the medical establishment post-Katrina, and how the wealthy abuse the US judicial system? Wait shit.

You’re probably right that a handful of bad decisions invalidate the work of hundreds of talented journalists who do some of the best investigative work in an industry stressed on all sides. Glenn Greenwald rants and medium posts can replace all that.

Aside from everything else: "a homage"?

As Albany says in "Lear," that's but a trifle here....

Though I expect misguided let's-try-and-understand-them Times profiles. In this context, "a homage" is a sucker punch.