My job would be a lot easier if, rather than critiquing people I disagree w/ based on their words and actual views, I employed guilt-by-association headlines and wildly uncharitable, speculative assertions about what secretly drives them psychologicallyhttps://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/10/17338290/intellectual-dark-web-rogan-peterson-harris-times-weiss …
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These deeply perilous modes are almost never allowed when the subject is an in-group. And they make fair-minded, nonideological observers familiar with the underlying work lose faith in all journalism.
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It is akin to the early aughts ring-wing pundits who insisted leftists only opposed the Iraq War because deep down they hate America, in that it also renders those who believe it less able to understand reality
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And it drives me crazy because it makes the job of every scrupulously fair-minded journalist *much harder*
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