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This seems like a really myopic view, focused on ideas like blame and purity. Or, another way, this seems like a blame the messenger strategy. Sure, great, Med
by brookst 3y ago
This seems like a really myopic view, focused on ideas like blame and purity.
Or, another way, this seems like a blame the messenger strategy. Sure, great, Media Matters is not a perfect arbiter of whatever. But how does that make it not a problem that Ford's ads are showing next to overt Nazi content? Am I (or is Ford) supposed to handwave it away because the same thing could happen on another platform?
- woooooo 3y agoRecognizing an isolated demand for rigor isn't necessarily a demand for purity. It's specifically noticing when nobody cares at all about a topic in all contexts except when it gores a particular ox. In both this example and the emails thing, you never hear anybody talking about it except some very particular cases where they're clearly motivated to tar a particular target. "We all have to consider this topic to be very important, specifically and only when party X does it, and talking about anything else is whataboutism!"
- michtzik 3y agoHenry Ford's Wikipedia page literally has a top-level section on antisemitism.
- meepmorp 3y agoHenry Ford has been dead for 76 years and the company is not currently run by vocal antisemites, so I don't quite get the point you're trying to make. Presumably you're saying it's not a big deal and they don't really care?