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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not resistant in the slightest to the idea that Taibbi is racist. I just don't think a post that says, essentially, oh, that's so racist, without additional explanation, is adding much to the conversation. Taibbi's review of that book seems completely of a piece with the other thing of his that Sebby posted recently about the media, in that it's a bunch of drive-by cheap points rather than an effort to respond to what smart people are saying and thinking. It's no surprise that he's posting that stuff on his own site instead of getting it published, because it's self-indulgent.
I thought it would be understood by everyone that I was not sharing Taibbi because I agree with him, but maybe I needed to say that.
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Adder is pretty much the Tom Cotton of this place when he does that sort of thing.
"Look! Antifa!"
"Look! Racist!"
But I still think it's better to dismantle their flawed reasoning than have them not say what they said. Cotton is and should be thought dishonest and lazy. Adder should be thought not dishonest but definitely lazy and pitiable.
He knows he can pull out the "That's bigoted!" card each time and then when someone says, accurately, "please," he can turn around and say, "You're fragile." It's a cudgel. A can't lose way for a lazy person to assert superiority on each argument. And I am not talking out of school in the least to suggest he's addicted to virtue-signaling of the worst kind. He courts "atta boys" like the most desperately cloying SO would passive aggressively cajole an "I love you."
