(cont) threw an absolute tantrum online when Ira Glass investigated his claims after putting his program on the line to vouch for him and discovered he made up literally all the meaningful details Because "his heart was in the right place" and he was just trying to "make change"
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That's "Facts matter vs facts don't matter" culture, which honestly is orthogonal to "snark vs smarm" When it's the self-identified snarkers on the wrong end of it they think that "Facts matter" culture is SUPER smarmy
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Cf. any time a screenshot dunk goes viral on Twitter and someone tries to go "Okay but in context what he clearly meant was"
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It's funny because before that happened Daisey's overall career was absolutely Team Snark by any reasonable standard, like the Gawker stuff about mocking hipsters and techbro culture and "writering"
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Before the stuff came out about the story of the worker with the disfigured hand being fabricated, if you made broader fact based criticisms of his piece you'd absolutely get shat on for smarm ("Actually the Shenzhen suicide rate is lower than the US overall")
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I mean, again, I say this as a big fan of DFW, it's ironic that he brought up his cruise essay because it was fake in exactly the same way Mike Daisey's monologue was fake and he openly admitted it but nobody cared in that instance because cruise companies are cringe anyway
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Daisey's defense that "Look in the world I come from of literary essays and dramatizations no one really cares if the stories you use as illustrations actually happened" is one of those awkward "It's true but he shouldn't say it" things
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It seems like the kind of thing that only needs to be true if you're a boring white dude?
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Well I mean Daisey did actually go to Shenzhen and even though nothing that happened there changed his mind about Foxconn being an abusive company there was also, reasonably, nothing super dramatic that happened that he could use for a story
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Well, yeah, but it kind of feels like he already knew what kind of story he wanted to tell before he ever packed his bags, and went to Shenzhen just to lend credibility to it?
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Sure But that's kind of the thing, it's ridiculous to think that his mind SHOULD have been changed by one trip to Shenzhen either way Going at all was part of the theater
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Like what comes off as smarmier than saying "I took the tour of the factory and I have to say everyone was very nice to me"
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I guess idk having it all laid out for me like that just kind of strikes me as the thing Ebert talks about in his review of Dead Poets Society if you're going to China to lend authority to the monologue you already know you want to write, why not just write something elsepic.twitter.com/GacU0OLdRM
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