Objectively intelligent.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Who the fuck are you to decide that?

Dude, my question was, what would you do if you were the editor? Do you read at a first-grade level?

That was the point of my reply. That asshole assumed he has the right to decide what is and isn’t in the sphere of deviancy.

I say let a crazy opinion be shot down by readers. I’d have run Cotton’s Oped all day long, and also run the stupid article you cited, so people could shoot that down as well.

If you're running a newspaper, you have to make choices. If you go out and ask Cotton to write up his crazy views, you can't run something else. If you only have a small section in the paper and you have to choose -- like, if you're the editor -- then why would you run Cotton's piece instead of something else? Stop rejecting the idea that you have to make choices -- that's what editors do.