looking forward to a fucking month of thinkpieces about how mean the twitter mob is for ratio'ing this bad tweethttps://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/997277752008028160 …
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imagine what the world would be like if the op-ed writers of the english speaking world cared a tenth as much about Palestinian kids being murdered for engaging in peaceful protest as they do about their fellow op-ed writers getting rightly criticized when they fuck up
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the actual journalism at these publications are another story but if you looked at the fucking opinion page of any of these places you'd think the #1 issue facing Americans today is columnists getting what they ask for when they tweet provocatively bigoted shit
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and the whole "the twitter mob telling me that i'm wrong proves that i am right" is fucking garbage, by the wayhttps://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/997291703261454337 …
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when you're a reporter or an opinion writer that people look to for ways to make sense of the world and you decide to try to die on the hill of "people are being too mean to bigots", you aren't proving a point, you're just showing your ass about who you're loyal too
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it's rarely truth, or an audience, or even an ideology: it's the ability to speak from an elevated podium without the masses having any power to point out when they smell bullshit
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