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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
dude, keep in mind Ty is the mother of also censors. He deletes shit he doesn't like. Ty here is what Trump wishes he were in the world. Sad.
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Of course. He fancies himself one who knows better and should get to decide what the public considers.
But he can’t say that directly. Nor can the author he cites. So they try to frame the argument, contort it, so it does not resemble that position but still has the same effect.
And these efforts are always transparent. To repackage Cotton’s editorial as a news story about how crazy Cotton is is to editorialize in exactly the same way as Cotton. Only sleazily - burying the opinion within a purported fact piece.
Ty’s author is arguing the same position William Henry raised years ago in In Defense of Elitism. Henry argues that certain culture was simply More Worthy of Attention. And other culture should receive less attention. Henry, however, did it from a conservative perspective, so had he lived, he’d be thrown into Ty’s sphere of deviancy today.
Ty is really just a boring progressive with libertarian sympathies who thinks people who are anathema to his views ought not to share the Grey Lady’s space with what He Considers Worthy. Snobbishness of the middle minded. We’re awash in that cheap shit today. For those of us who think it’s garbage, it’s apropos the views of Ty would compete with the views of Cotton.
Ultimately, they should both be ignored.
