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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That was decades ago, and the rest of his canon is amazing work. So here I am repeating myself: Get over it. To paraphrase Mick Jagger from "Stray Cat Blues," a supremely offensive song that has never left my running mix, "this ain't no hanging matter... this ain't no capital crime."
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I didn't say it was a hanging matter. I was pointing out that Taibbi was a jackass who acted in a heinous way towards this woman, not for laughs, as you originally suggested, and has never apologized. When he complains about "cancel culture," he is one of the people who are transparently jumping on that bandwagon because they have acted badly and don't want to be held accountable.
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Oh, yes... We must have a giant recrimination party.
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I didn't say that. I was talking about Taibbi.
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But I won't be exercising it. If the lunacy you and most other people in this new social justice religion that silly white maleducated people have developed (hijacking and obscuring the very real and urgent cause of justice reform started by BLM) has taught me anything, it's that you are nuts. You are caught in a moral panic and have lost your mind. There is no sane conversation to be had with you. You're a fundamentalist.
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What did I say that makes you think this? Was it pointing out all of the people who are exploiting complaints about "cancel culture" in bad faith? Saying that Taibbi has treated other people poorly and has a history that is relevant and shouldn't be ignored in a story about this subject?
What I haven't done is defend all of the people (fictional or otherwise) you're complaining about. You wish I would, but I haven't.
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So I'll quietly continue to support justice reform, but as to you and every other upper middle class frivolous person who seeks to demand every Taibbi (or generally "privileged" person) wear a hairshirt for the rest of his or her days....
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And I didn't do that, either. You can't read very well, can you?
What I did say is that if Taibbi is going to be quoted on this subject, the reporter writing the story should give more context. Inform the reader. Facts are facts -- why hide them?
