James Lindsay is lashing out at @CathyYoung63 for being nuanced. It is literally impossible to be familiar with Cathy’s work and believe she is soft on “wokeness.”
You don't prove that "the media" hasn't given preferential treatment to a particular figure by pointing to individual instances of negative coverage. The analysis has to take into account much more than just that.
The positive coverage the "MSM" gave him, and the negative coverage they ought to have given him but didn't, overwhelmed the bad press they did give him. The latter, the critiques they did give him, failed to meaningfully shape the Cuomo narrative-forming process.
My impression is that a fuller analysis of mainstream coverage would bear this out. It would require determining a number of things.
(1) how much negative coverage, in newspaper inches or total journalistic output, Cuomo received (2) how prominent the negative coverage was
This was Daryl Morey’s tweet. This unquestionably morally correct stance is what LeBron called “misinformed” and uneducated.
Pure revisionist history. There was never any risk to NBA players’ safety, there was only a risk to their financial interests. I mean, there’s a reason LeBron never criticized China when he came back stateside.
Imagine being so irrationally contemptuous of wearing a piece of cloth over your mouth that you abandon your biggest grifting opportunity of the year over it.
Oh, white people "don't want to" lend the term denoting their racial identity to a concept designed to pick out "group entitlement," with no ameliorating qualification like "nationalism" or "supremacy" to signal that *being white* isn't the problem? The absolute nerve.
I should note that @deonteleologist is a good dude and I only screenshotted so that I could get both tweets in view, not because I'm going for a stealth dunk.
Imagine grammatically structuring a concept denoting entrenched power, unearned advantage, and group entitlement around a single group's race, with no alleviating qualifier signaling that only *some* are the baddies, and being miffed when they're less than enthusiastic about it.