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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 di
by genericone 6y ago
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?
- hobs 6y agoIs 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.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt 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
- ric2b 6y agoThose are clearly opinions at most, he's not claiming they're actual facts. No one reads that and thinks "wow, these people are members of the actual Stasi? holy crap!"