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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So pick one.
Who says that? Again, you manufacture your own caricature to fight with.
So cancel culture is like the wind, everywhere and nowhere at once? That makes you a guy yelling at the wind.
I'm not trying to "burden" you with anything, unless you think it's a burden to respond to actual things that actual people are saying, instead of making stuff up. And I didn't suggest you examine "each instance" of cancel culture -- you could start with one.
You are playing the same game that Taibbi does with the media, which is to make a bunch of broad pronouncements about a lot of things that a lot of people are saying, without every referring to any one person with enough specificity to figure out what you are talking about. It's rhetorically slick, in that you stick to claims that are impossible to refute. But if you only say things that can't be disproved, you say only things that can't be proved. It's "really quite daft and not very helpful." |
I sit in awe.
Taibbi has somehow channeled the sentiment of my last 10 or so posts into an epic micdrop.
Not only do I love that last link, but I am sending it to every annoying right and left crank I know. It savages both as deserved, and elevates Taibbi above the arguing rabble who’ve picked a side. Perfectly insulting stuff.
Thank you. I’d have found it myself, but later, and fresh is best.
