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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Can you give me an example of a moderate who has been "taken out"? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
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Yglesias is one. He walked before they made him run, but he walked because he felt stifled. Sullivan is definitely one. He’s a total moderate. (Nevermind Adder’s bullshit... I’m not dignifying him in re Sullivan.)
McNeil was one. Liberal, fired for using a term to describe manifestations of racism. A mob within the Times said intent didn’t matter.
The host of the Bachelor just has to take a hiatus for merely suggesting a contestant who’d been racist in the past wasn’t so today. That’s a perfect example of an insane purity test.
Punch “cancel culture victim” into google and you’ll find an endless list of cases of sane people saying something that offended some ludicrous pious view of social justice or wokeism and getting attacked for it and having their employers pressured to terminate them.
A lot of these people are not and do not want to be Taibbis. They’d like to write at moderate publications that entertained numerous views. They get pushed to places like Substack because “justice” and “gotcha” zealots are gunning for any scalp they can find.
This is a classic moral panic. It’ll pass. But we shouldn’t forget just how deluded and silly this purge has been, so we’ll be positioned to laugh at the next one rather than allow it to cow corporate toadies and newsrooms into paying it deference.
