According to these hot-cake selling books, it's as if the entire US higher education system is one corner of Oberlin.. But it works to sell.
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Suddenly, though, conservatives have no-platformed Milo. So that book is not going to do well. The end of "careful consideration."
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So, this is not about "liberal outrage", because the entire Milo machine depends on liberal outrage, but conservative no-platforming.
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Milo was in the business of turning liberal outrage into conservative $$$; see his sheepish statement this morning to the threat to model.
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You can often tell what's what by what people do when the threat is real. When real business in threatened. How they talk in depositions...
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If Milo was who he pretended to be, his response to latest would be a wild-eyed statement decrying censorship. Instead, sheepish apology.
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So the only thing Simon and Schuster "carefully considered" is sales, or lack thereof, from conservative no-platforming of Milo.
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To repeat: An urgent task is to give coherence to the public sphere via understanding how networked attention works.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/800000225310048256 …
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Because stuff Milo said had been known—it just caught conservative outrage recently. Liberal outrage=$$$. Conservative outrage=book pulled.
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How well-known was it? I never saw it in my feed until now. It was always "racist Milo," not "pedophile Milo."
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He talked often about these topics; in some ways, it may be the closest to him, too, as he was abused as a child, too.
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it kind of got drowned out by the more recent kerfuffles, like his unpaid UK debts
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