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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
One more time, with feeling: The NYT can put a lot of sunlight on Cotton's ideas without doing what it did, and without relaxing its ordinary editorial standards.
His personal site seems to be a place where he throws up wooly, ragged pieces that ramble from point to point without every developing one at length or responding in good faith to someone who he disagrees with. A editor might have said, gee, that doesn't sound like a fair characterization of what White Fragility is arguing. Can you quote a whole sentence from the book? Can you figure out what its author would say to you in her own defense? He's not stupid, but he's self-indulgent. If he's posting rough drafts to gauge his audience's appetite for lulz, that sounds like a business plan, not a path to good writing.
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Well, dude’s gotta eat. Might be partially a business plan.
But his writing and his viewpoint, when condensed in RS or his books, is both uniquely untethered from the usual viewpoints one sees (left v. right) and incredibly insightful.
And the bon mots... Dude can turn a phrase like few others.
