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I’ve been reading newspapers compulsively every day since about the age of 8. Since the 1990’s, when the internet made it possible, I’ve been bingeing on a steady daily diet of multiple papers in multiple languages. I mention this all this as context for the following:
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This article in the @washingtonpost by @mffisher & @TrentPost is the single worst piece of journalism I have ever come across. The editing, the reporting, the prose, even the spaces between the words are a disgrace to the entire profession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/blackface-incident-at-washington-post-cartoonists-2018-halloween-party-resurfaces-amid-protests/2020/06/17/66f09bde-af2e-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html
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When future generations study how a pandemic-addled society passed on an opportunity to address structural racism and violence and chose instead to descend into ritualized struggle sessions — where the titillation of the baying mob was only enhanced ...
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...by the thrilling knowledge that some of today’s participants would become tomorrow’s targets — they will read and study this article.
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It starts with the rank dishonesty of “resurfaced” in the headline, continues through the forensic reconstruction of the claimed “harassment” that clearly shows it to be false but is unafraid to speak its conclusion out loud.
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On the way we get a heroic photo of our Potomac Torquemadas. A dozen can-I-speak-to-your-supervisor’s couldn’t equal their entitlement.
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That @mffisher and @TrentPost bury the fact that their “journalistic” work got a woman fired from her job, like their twitter silence on the article, is all we need to know about their pride in this work.
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Everyone is posting their favorite parts. For me, the sentence that captures the whole farce is this:
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It has everything. The irrelevant racial identifier, the yearning to have been denouncing rather than tainted by the subsequent denunciation, and the egregiously class-marking “arts entrepreneur.”
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The New Deal and Civil Rights were won by a Left that emerged from the working class and the poor and struggled for legislation which improved the lives of millions. What will today’s Fyre Festival of competitive wokeness yield?
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