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b_b  ·  1412 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tom Cotton’s Fascist Op-Ed

I mean, it's not like this is new. Our hackles are just up right now.





cgod  ·  1411 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For real, lets not pretend that this kind of thing doesn't happen on the NYT editorial page. Some fucked up shit gets printed, sometimes in the editorial page, sometimes in the paper proper. A few weeks ago an article about the problems being experienced by Saudi Arabia took fifty seven paragraphs or something to mention the fact that they've killed a quarter of a million Yemenis in the past few years. There is also some really great reporting.

People who are absolutely shocked at this can go fuck themselves, they apparently just found moral fortitude and a spine for the first time this week. Oh shit, just got woke to the hypocrisy of the NYT by Tommy Cotton!

Maybe it's just modern cancel culture catching up to reality and we really do need to shit on the Times, cancel our subscriptions and spray paint slogans on the their building. I think we might be to ready to exclude. I think we might be too quick to get all worked up. Read that shit with a critical eye, enjoy some good journalism and try to be aware of the political biases and commercial influences that are coming to bear.

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am_Unition  ·  1411 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not only this, but it's like, wtf else do we have for prose as succinct as NYT? Only mk.

I reserve the right to shit on NYT while retaining a subscription. Goldberg's rebuke of Cotton and NYT was gold, and the editorial board was probably like "yeah, ya got us".