Happy New Year! A thread of some of the worst editorials/opinion pieces of 2020. Let’s leave these takes behind in 2021:
Major tw // racism, transphobia
Hmm https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/1344040022500990977?s=20
Don't forget Tom Cotton's piece https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1268896517609439234?s=20
... https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-actual-playing-field-shouldnt-be-a-political-one-11596233576
Opinion | An Actual Playing Field Shouldn’t Be a Political One

Too many athletes today are trying to score the wrong kind of points.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-actual-playing-field-shouldnt-be-a-political-one-11596233576
Cancel culture! https://twitter.com/Harpers/status/1280495875165425670?s=20
Blatant transphobia https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced
Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced | Suzanne Moore

The treatment of Selina Todd this weekend was a warning. We have to protect women’s sex-based rights, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced
😃😃 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/medicare-for-all-democrats.html
Opinion | Can We Please Stop Fighting About ‘Medicare for All’?

One policy proposal has defined this Democratic race. It’s time to move on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/medicare-for-all-democrats.html
Wonderful historical insight https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/
1776 Honors America’s Diversity in a Way 1619 Does Not

Academic historians, conservatives, and Trotskyist socialists rightly reject The New York Times’ reframing of the past.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/
:’) https://twitter.com/politico/status/1306457908897611778?s=20
“...one’s racial identity could be as much a matter of personal preference as gender,” is a real sentence from this piece https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/09/25/krug-controversy-reveals-contradiction-how-we-view-race-opinion
Krug controversy reveals contradiction in how we view race (opinion)

The controversy over a white professor passing herself off as Black reveals an underlying contradiction in how we view race, Peter C. Herman writes.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/09/25/krug-controversy-reveals-contradiction-how-we-view-race-opinion
I would just like the writer to sit in on an average poli sci class and see if they’d still feel that universities are too “woke” https://www.wsj.com/articles/woke-universities-lead-america-to-a-primitive-state-11604359918
Opinion | Woke Universities Lead America to a Primitive State

Higher education now stands for mob rule, civic ignorance and contempt for truth and free inquiry.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/woke-universities-lead-america-to-a-primitive-state-11604359918
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-woke-see-no-eviland-nothing-but-evil-11608925768?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter
Opinion | The Woke See No Evil—and Nothing but Evil

Behind the paradox lies a superstition about history that may explain their viciousness and violence.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-woke-see-no-eviland-nothing-but-evil-11608925768?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter
Ah yes, the angry Bernie bros https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/sanders-bernie-bros.html
Opinion | Bernie’s Angry Bros

The Sanders online army resembles President Trump’s most ardent supporters in more ways than either side might care to admit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/sanders-bernie-bros.html
This one’s just laughable https://twitter.com/WSJopinion/status/1342102898327638017?s=20
More transphobia https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclus-betrayal-of-athletic-girls-11604703511
Opinion | The ACLU’s Betrayal of Athletic Girls

Half a century ago, the group backed the right to compete equally. Now it wants biological males on female teams.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclus-betrayal-of-athletic-girls-11604703511
I don’t even know what to say about this https://www.wsj.com/articles/youre-more-likely-to-catch-covid-at-home-than-in-jail-11595628804
Opinion | You’re More Likely to Catch Covid at Home Than in Jail

Early release policies have had no effect on transmission behind bars. But they have contributed to a crime wave.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/youre-more-likely-to-catch-covid-at-home-than-in-jail-11595628804
Italianx <3 https://www.wsj.com/articles/columbus-day-stands-for-diversity-11602446541
Opinion | Columbus Day Stands for Diversity

Italian-Americans, victims of severe discrimination, rallied to honor him.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/columbus-day-stands-for-diversity-11602446541
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