Re:NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
by genericone on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:07PM
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Are you kidding? 1 public figure, a freaking journalist, reads something and immediately decides they need to do a hot-take-cancel-op on a public figure they didn't like, libeling him in the process. Greenwald takes a much more measured approach, he writes a blog, like 1000 words, explaining his thoughts. There's a non-thinking person on one side and an articulate person on the other, and you want to denounce the articulate one?
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Re:NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
by hobs on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:31PM
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Is it articulate to immediately compare your opponents to the stasi? Not really, its pretty bland and typical for internet name calling - writing more words doesn't make something high art.
Re:NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
by SpicyLemonZest on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:43PM
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It really doesn't seem accurate to characterize this blogpost as a measured approach. A few quotes that jumped out at me from just the first section:
> the Times’ tech team quickly donned their hall-monitor goggles and Stasi notebooks
> The little crew of tattletale millennials assembled by NBC — who refer to their twerpy work with the self-glorifying title of “working in the disinformation space”
> they clearly get aroused — find otherwise-elusive purpose — by destroying people’s reputations and lives