The corporate press has a nasty little technique they use that's either become ubiquitous or I've simply started noticing it. When they first mention a Bad Person in their article, they will as an aside immediately brand them with the most stigmatizing descriptor possible.
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It works like this: "Person x, [horrible and dubiously relevant information], said that..." I will update this thread as I encounter this tactic from the corporate press playbook.
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"Gab, an Austin startup known for being a popular social network hangout for alt-right white supremacist groups," https://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/tech-trump-immigration-h1b.html …
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"Twitter suspended several accounts associated with the Proud Boys, a right-wing group present at last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville,"
#AsAnAsidehttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/twitter-suspends-proud-boys-and-founder-gavin-mcinnes …3 replies 18 retweets 231 likesShow this thread -
"With the rise of President Donald Trump, who has been described in media outlets as the 'human distillation' of the conspiracy monger's paranoid worldview,"
#AsAnAsidehttps://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/09/14/alex-jones-rise-and-fall-of-infowars-conspiracy-pusher.html …7 replies 15 retweets 220 likesShow this thread -
"Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author and commentator who asserts that Barack Obama is 'driven by a Third World, anti-American ideology that he got from his Kenyan father,'"
#AsAnAsidehttps://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/05/20/dinesh_d_souza_guilty_felony_charge_admitted_by_obama_anatagonist.html …7 replies 16 retweets 218 likesShow this thread -
"Valizadeh, who has spoken at an event hosted by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer and described giving women the right to vote as a mistake,"
#AsAnAsidehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/major-mens-rights-site-shuts-down-after-paypal-amazon-bans …3 replies 13 retweets 169 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @michaelmalice
Isn’t the “most stigmatizing descriptor possible” usually the most recognizable thing about them?
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