The Harper's Letter is both brilliant and infuriating because it means something completely different to everyone who signed it and everyone who reads it. Simultaneously provocative and utterly toothless. Exactly what cancel culture deserves.
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Replying to @LeeHepner
it’s amazing that professionals/academics in journalism could produce such an exemplary word salad of nothing
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Replying to @JaniceForBART
Right?! And how was Chomsky’s first question not “is JK Rowling signing this, too?”
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Replying to @LeeHepner @JaniceForBART
let us all bask in this ephemeral moment of us agreeing for once (or twice or thrice)
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @LeeHepner
kim-mai this is 2020, who knows what will happen and what we’ll agree on!
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Replying to @JaniceForBART @LeeHepner
I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with you Janice. I can’t recall anything right now. I am pro
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @LeeHepner
oh . . . u were referring to Lee . . . this is awkward now . . . my only response is to ask “what would Lee do” and Lee would say
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Replying to @JaniceForBART @LeeHepner
Lol no, it’s *nice* disagreement — like what democracy is made for. Like disagreeing but *not* canceling or whining about being cancelled.
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Or complaining about cancel culture bc you want to build your personal brand and don’t want to have to explain why your cultural relevance is waning amid demographic and ideological change of the generation coming after us.
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