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Jeet Heer
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This @jonkay thread is really remarkable and maybe deserves a little closer scrutiny.
In the course of a thread, Kay goes from 1) admitting Wente plagiarized on multiple occasions & that was "bad" 2) compares her to a bad barber 3) offers her a writing gig at his publication.
Also: if you are a bad barber, then other barbers will know you are unskilled and talk about it. Most barbers have craft pride! Most journalists have craft-pride. The people who edit Quillette have no craft-pride.
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1. This whole "speaking Spanish" thing is mystifying to me. I mean knowing more than one language is a good thing! Spanish is a world language, the language of America's largest neighbor and many other states in the hemisphere!
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Not striking is the right decision but the constant zig-zags speaks to what I wrote about earlier today: an incoherent foreign policy that sends mixed messages & increases the likelihood of war.
It would be good if the Democrats running for president eschewed the easy "Putin's puppet" rhetoric & talked about the dangers of incoherence as I outlined here; thenation.com/article/trump-…
It's really important at a time like this for the Democrats not to taunt Trump for being weak (although in truth he is very weak) but rather to educate the public on the dangers of a foreign policy that is fundamentally incoherent.
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