what a deeply irresponsible headlinehttps://twitter.com/BretStephensNYT/status/953961522912481280 …
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basic structure for pieces in newspapers puts most of the information in the first paragraph and more detail as it goes on, so people who just want the basics can just read the beginning and still be informed
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he started out with basic red-baiting and pointing out that most of the spies who gave nuclear secrets to the USSR were Jewish and gave very little reason why anyone wouldn't think "well I guess the NYT is going full Breitbart" and read something that's actually good instead
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i run a thinkpiece-mocking satirical twitter bot and even i know better than to program it to say things like "Ban Jews" because Jewish people have enough fucking problems without having that pop up looking like a real headline
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the meme shirt is, as always, right, and this fails the meme shirt test (also if anyone knows who made the meme shirt and they are OK with being associated with it, please let me know, this thing is foundational for me)pic.twitter.com/kIqzvKww11
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but also if you're known to be kind of a bigot and are publishing in a newspaper known for plastering fascist apology all over its op-ed section several times a week, you can't expect people to just assume you're being ~ironic~ when you write an article titled "Ban Jews"
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and i'm constantly floored by the fact that the fucking ~newspaper of record~ manages to fail the ethical standards that i hold my joke-generating twitter robot to
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that's not me being a braggart about how i am better than the new york times or anything, that's me saying that this shit is not that fucking hard and they still manage to fuck it up constantly
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next time you're thinking about writing something that you only expect people to read based on shock value, ask yourself: is this the same kind of thing a 4chan nazi would write while pretending that their bigotry is ~just ironic~?
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if the answer "yes", do some actual fucking self-reflection for once in your shitty, pretentious life, you fucking asshole.
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