Maybe Michael Powell could have avoided the confusion by describing his beat as "exposing left-wing excess" rather than "Free Speech & Intellectual Debate"
Anyway right-wingers interested in decoding what Michael Powell was or wasn't trying to do with the story should look at who among the central characters get to have their class status considered throughout the piece and who gets their class set aside in favor of their race
Good quote about entitled rich students, how does it apply to a first-generation student working a summer job?
Anyway Ben Shapiro, who gloated about a vigilante stalking and killing an unarmed teen who was walking home, now considers it a grave moral crime for a person to get carried away by their misguided subjective threat assessment
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Genuinely bleak that Tucker Carlson, whose mother abandoned him and his family as a child because she wasn’t into it, is choosing this particular angle for his Two Minutes Hate
Look we all know what’s really going on here with this decrepit powerful man and his cynical, loveless family relations, says Rupert Murdoch’s prime-time TV host
Incredibly, taken on its own terms, Tucker's argument here is that longtime spouses could not be genuinely loving and tender with one another if one of them were in mental decline
Ooh! Is it "Making a show of trashing the roster so as not to be accountable for doing their job of finding talent and winning games until some indefinite future date"?
Facebook's new, sophisticated appeals system for content-removal decisions is telling people in Myanmar which ways of dehumanizing Muslims are acceptable, which should be helpful in the next round of Facebook-facilitated genocide there oversightboard.com/decision/FB-I2…
Don't see any genocidal red flags here, just a healthy Facebook user discussion about how the death of a toddler of a particular religious identity probably made the world a better place
Can't think of anything bad that happened to a Washington Post journalist in the past four years, certainly not like getting chopped to pieces on the orders of a dictator intimately allied with the president and his family
It's not as if the president inspired a supporter to mail pipe bombs to CNN or anything
Josh Hawley’s most damning indictment of liberal meritocracy is not any of his dumb culture-war speeches, it’s all the people in his wake who are baffled that someone who got good grades could be a vicious bigot