i know she didn't publish the la times bad thinkpiece but bari weiss is, at the moment, more responsible for bad thinkpieces than pretty much anyone else out there
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you might remember meghan daum from her coming to the defense of the parents of leelah alcorn after they drove her to suicide and then buried her under her deadname
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or from the many times she wrote the same fucking columns about trigger warnings and safe spaces that every conservative dipshit with a syndication deal rewrites every time that they can't come up with another column idea
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shout out to every blowhard who conflates the bad faith actions of people like mike "actually a rapist" cernovich to get people fired with people pointing out that ben shapiro is, in fact, a racist, transphobic piece of shit
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"we're getting called transphobic just for" (checks notes) "hating trans people"
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these fuckwads have been spending a good part of the last decade screaming themselves silly about trigger warnings and social media mobs and how they're being silenced because people who don't have regular paid speaking gigs can call them on their shit now
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I’m not inclined to defend Weiss and at the same time recognize that social media needs to be marginalized. People are taking it way too seriously when the foolish masses yell “CHARGE”.
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