Thread by @HotlineJosh

"Yglesias felt that he could no longer speak his mind without riling his colleagues....As a relative moderate at Vox, he felt that it was important to challenge what he called the dominant sensibility... that sets the tone at digital-media organizations"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"Yglesias said he believes that certain voguish positions are substantively wrong—for instance, defunding police—and that such arguments, as well as rhetorical fights over terms like Latinx, alienate many people from progressive politics and the D Party."
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Yglesias: "The people making the media are young college grads in big cities, & that kind of politics makes a lot of sense to them. We keep seeing older people, and working-class people of all races and ethnicities, just don’t share that entire worldview"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

More Yglesias: "Something we’ve seen in a lot of organizations is increasing sensitivity about language and what people say. It’s a damaging trend in the media in particular because it is an industry that’s about ideas."
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…