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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not resistant in the slightest to the idea that Taibbi is racist. I just don't think a post that says, essentially, oh, that's so racist, without additional explanation, is adding much to the conversation. Taibbi's review of that book seems completely of a piece with the other thing of his that Sebby posted recently about the media, in that it's a bunch of drive-by cheap points rather than an effort to respond to what smart people are saying and thinking. It's no surprise that he's posting that stuff on his own site instead of getting it published, because it's self-indulgent.
I thought it would be understood by everyone that I was not sharing Taibbi because I agree with him, but maybe I needed to say that.
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How are you still doing this? I didn’t say that Tiabbi “is racist.” Is said I was surprised that he was willing to be as racist as he was in that piece. He wrote a racist piece. Does that reveal his character? That’s up to individual judgment, but the piece and the ideas it expressed were racist, in that it disparaged antiracist ideas and upheld racists ones. What he said had the inherent character of reinforcing existing racial hierarchies and dismissing attempts to dismantle them. It was racist. Whether or not he “is” doesn’t interest me in the least.
