It is rare to see a magazine publish an interview in which their interviewer is so thoroughly and effectively skewered, time after time, by the person they are interviewinghttps://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times …
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exactly. chotiner isn't doing magic--he's doing background research prior to the interview, and he presses people when they don't really answer his questions. but it turns out these are rare skills these days!
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It's not magic but he is extremely, unusually good at tracking the contours of an argument in real time, even as the interaction throws distractions his way. I like to think that I am *also* quite good at this and I am still deeply impressed by his skill at it (better than mine)
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I don’t get the “chotinered”:reference...and google isn’t helping. Where does it come from?
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isaac chotiner, sort of famous for eviscerating people in interviews
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This is why she said it was an inverse chotiner. Because it was the interviewee doing it instead of the interviewer.
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Right, and this time it's the interviewer trying to bring up T*RF talking points and Butler constantly pointing out that she's doing this and maneuvering the conversation back to atrocities against trans people
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