*whispers* NYT is concerned about Dershowitz's hard time because they see him as a member of their social class
NYT doesn't give a shit about Dershowitz but if it becomes cool to give grief to high-status monkeys, guess what, NYT is high-status monkeys
This is also why so many newspapers came out against public shoutdowns: because journos know huge portion of public views them w/ contempt.
Despite their lying efforts to blame Trump for murders last week, journos know political murders are rare bc that's not what normal ppl do.
Journos know that political murder is not something normal people are willing to do.
Yelling at someone you hate, though? *Oh yeah.*
Yelling at someone you hate, though? *Oh yeah.*
Yelling at someone you hate, in public, is an example of what I've called "mainstream hardcore."
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Journos in America run much less risk of murder than of being targets of mainstream hardcore. And they know this.
journo reax to shoutdowns & Dersh is actually a mild version of Righty bluechecks' response to Kevin Williamson being fired by the Atlantic
what upsets NYT abt Dersh, and Righty bluechecks abt Williamson, is the threat to their identities as The Ones Who Read Ppl Out Of Society
hagiography of WFB reading out Birchers & Buchanan made Righty bluechecks feel deep down that their opinion of who's in vs out matters
nope
nope
NYT has actual power so Dersh's snubs aren't as brutally shattering of concept of self, but they are disquieting
so we're probably gonna see a bunch of stories like this, bc the NYT doesn't want its ppl to be snubbed in the circles they move in
spoiler: at some point the NYT will realize they are not in charge of this stuff anymore
2020 is gonna be so lit, folks
2020 is gonna be so lit, folks
