But, old elites too have failed again. We got told that panic was uncalled for. We got lectured about the flu. There was an insinuation that the people who were alarmed shared the racism. Now this point is subtle. That kind of conflation makes the job of racists easier.
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If there is a real problem, and if there is an ethnonationalist response to it, minimizing the problem or telling people that if they're concerned, they must also share that ideology *empowers* the ethnonationalism. The number of historical examples is staggering. Also, duh!
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After 2016, we simply did not have enough accountability among the old elite about how we got where we got, and their own role in it. 2016 was a symptom. Blame tech, sure! New tech has a part in the problem. But the failure is across the board. Curing symptom doesn't cure cause.
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I will eventually try to write this longer. Many subtle points here, and hard to express well. Just putting it out there. Without accountability and soul-searching, a catastrophe averted for the moment isn't a catastrophe averted in the future. Political debt always comes due.
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There's been amazing journalism lately. But we desperately need accountability in the *punditry* about the initial dismissals, lectures about not panicking, flu comparisons, the innumeracy, and orienting themselves as responding to the racism but it in a way that empowers it./fin
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Mechanisms for punditry accountability would require the kind of sacrifice and change in structural incentives that too many news organizations will not make.
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I am just amazed that they don’t see what just happened in the past two-three months. It’s like 2016 redux. They can see the terrible things that are not them, and are indeed terrible, but are utterly blind and uninterested in their own colossal failures.
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I think too many of us only look ahead - that's all they have time for and that's all the incentives suggest.
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I know. I get it. But sometimes it seems there isn’t awareness! They can see how the current administration failed this, duh, but it’s like the last couple of months didn’t happen for them.
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Weird how focusing on the faults of partisan opponents makes you less introspective.
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Sigh. Of course. Very human failure. No doubt we are all prone to it. (haha except you and me, as we are both perfect). All I can say is that there is no way except to institutionalize it. It's very hard at the human level, and the short-term incentives are never there.
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Just looked at one, ahem, top paper's op-eds for February and, among a few good pieces, it's "what about the flu", "quarantines don't work", "don't panic", "panic is racist" "irrational people", "stupid hoarders" and a tourism industry person saying keep traveling. FEBRUARY!!!
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