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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The old rule was bad ideas would be countered by either being ignored or critiqued with other speech showing their flaws.
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You seem to be a big fan of some guys who really don't like the latter.
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I think he's focusing initially on college campus intolerance and corporate toadying to left wing cancel mobs and extrapolating from there.
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You seem to be a guy who really doesn't like the latter (see above)
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It attracts voices who, to use Sam Harris's term, have cancel-proofed themselves. Taibbi, Sullivan, Greenwald, Harris...
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You left off Ygelsias, and you mean attracted people with a following who want to be free to be a bit more racist than their prior editors let them be. Their migration has been more than a little revealing. (Except Sullivan, whose racism has been apparent all along.)
I will also tell you again that Taibbi and Greenwald are transparently compromised by the Russians, but sure, go ahead and fanboy.
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Garbage like what CNN has turned into -- ignoring riots in the streets in the summer, and treating the Capitol riot like the most important story of our lifetime. (It's not.)
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Tell me more
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Or garbage like the argument, offered by numerous mainstream left-leaning sources, that rioting in the streets this summer did not spread Covid. (It did.)
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Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.
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The most lurid and embarrassing reaches of these moral panics are made by white people who are caught up in purity tests.
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Did you really just call racism a moral panic? Dude.
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Meanwhile, minority voices remain underrepresented.
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Man, you don't just hear from enough racists these days... Oh. Wait.
