*checks back in, sees the news is they fired Wilkinson over an obvious joke tweet, feels good about spending most of this day off this hellsite, sell the team*
I don't understand why ppl are still getting fired over bad joke tweets when we have a mechanism appropriately calibrated to deal with bad tweets now! The List!
When we create multinational institutions like The List, or NATO, to express the combined democratic will of the free world, it undermines the post-cold war social order to take matters into your own hands. Niskanen Center just made the world less safe.
Also, literally all tweets are bad.
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Here's why some of us oppose cancel culture consistently: institutional response to Bari at the NYT was cheered on heartily by ppl at the NYT, this time they get an angry outcry. They were wrong to do it both cases but were told last time they'd be wrong *not* to do it.
Conservatives, myself included, spent this week defending Will Wilkenson because right and wrong doesn't depend on political affiliation. Institutions will react this way until the public sends them a message that they ought not to.
I still don't even understand what happened to Wolfe from the NYT perspective: editors have opinions! And express them! It's actually part of the job much of the time. Hold institutions accountable for playing 'three felonies a day' with ppl's livelihoods.
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I just want any of the pubs that kissed his feet to revisit their own Cuomo coverage. One writer to say 'Whoops!'
We did a deep dive into these failures months ago, so if you read the Examiner mag you know what's actually happening with the virus in NY. But wouldn't it help partisans with fingers in their ears to see it in, say, The Atlantic? A full takedown of Cuomo? If not, why not?
"He was a Democratic district leader, Manhattan county clerk, borough president, lawyer and author. But above all, Dinkins was a dignified and well-respected gentleman."
The great secret of NYC is that it's much tougher on you in life than in death. Sometimes the abuse you take is a form of in-group sentimentalism, weird as that sounds.