1) Become professional adult journalist
2) Opine/report on controversial subjects
3) Receive criticism online
4) Claim your "life has been destroyed" by this criticism despite the institutional backing of your employer, the New York Times
2) Opine/report on controversial subjects
3) Receive criticism online
4) Claim your "life has been destroyed" by this criticism despite the institutional backing of your employer, the New York Times
Taylor Lorenz is circulating the manifesto of a new group called "Coalition Against Online Violence" which defines "violence" as harsh criticism online. This is becoming the new standard in the media industry, and its intended effect is to stifle criticism against public figures
If you are this traumatized and disconsolate from your adult professional choices, that's unfortunate and hopefully you have mental health resources available. But using it as a battering-ram to stigmatize as "violence" all criticism of you, a public figure, is totally absurd
Journalists rushing to defend Taylor on the ground of "empathy" are missing the point. This isn't a matter of having empathy for her personal issues. It's that she's publicly using those issues to advocate a new concept of "violence" that's becoming the norm in the media industry
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