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2 Apr, 8 tweets, 3 min read
"Traumatized" Journalists Are Now Declaring Themselves A "Marginalized" Group mtracey.substack.com/p/traumatized-…
This is a real proposal in @PENamerica's new blockbuster Report outlining sweeping recommendations to aid allegedly traumatized journalists Image
FYI: The reason I keep talking about this "therapeutic trauma jargon" stuff is because it's so rapidly infiltrating every media/activism institution and being confided into policy + mores that affect society writ large
My favorite part of researching this post might've been discovering that journalist Talia Lavin (a white Harvard grad) recently declared herself "marginalized"
Here's an article in the Columbia Journalism Review all about how "traumatized" professional adult journalists supposedly are by "the brutality of the news cycle," as well as ongoing "anti-press hostility" and "online abuse." Such melodramatic crybabies
cjr.org/the_media_toda…
Nieman Lab reposted the @lyzl Substack post in which she reveals spending 90% of her life crying because of "online harassment," and @chick_in_kiev declares herself a member of a "marginalized" group. Most media institutions are embracing this mentality niemanlab.org/2021/04/when-t…
Author of the PEN America report mentioned above retweeted this. Pretty clarifying as to what paradigm they're looking at the issue through. Professional adult journalists opining on political controversies lumped into the same category as random people walking down the street Image
Doing a nifty Clubhouse room tonight at 9pm EST to discuss these themes: joinclubhouse.com/event/Pby1JwvG

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31 Mar
Journalists Are "Centering" Their "Trauma" Because It Enables Them To Acquire Power mtracey.substack.com/p/journalists-…
Does anyone in media ever stop to ponder what this says about the state of the industry
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This post provides ample reason to conclude that contemporary gender identity activists are 100% operating from within an easily-discernible ideology. They're perfectly entitled to that ideology: but denying its existence is a form of what's sometimes called "gaslighting"
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A central reason why the current media landscape is so constricted and stifled: the logic underlying demands to combat "Russian disinformation" has now been fully inculcated into journalists' overall advocacy for the suppression and censorship of speech
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Russiagate was a crucial forerunner to this ongoing outbreak of journalist-led censoriousness, but of course most journos eagerly helped amplify and propagate Russiagate so how would they even be aware of the damage they inflicted
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15 Mar
Why Journalists Hate Substack mtracey.substack.com/p/why-journali…
The bottom line: pressure on Substack to censor/regulate is going to escalate at an accelerating pace from this point forward, because journalists fundamentally motivated by petty jealousies and resentments are going to campaign for its destruction under the pretext of "safety"
Yes, I admit I'm biased in favor of Substack not being destroyed by self-important domineering cry-bullies
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14 Mar
Catching up on Scottish politics, which are in turmoil as evidence mounts that the government engineered a scheme to "take down" a prominent political figure with false sexual misconduct charges, leading to a Party schism that may imperil the entire Independence project. Whoops
Speaking of Scotland's ruling party, they've also just ushered through a new "Hate Crime" bill which criminalizes "stirring up hatred" by "displaying, publishing or distributing" materials which members of various identity groups may "reasonably" deem "threatening or abusive"
Imagine the sheer breadth of scenarios whereby the law could apply to social media. (Also apparently applies to totally private communications.) SNP's justice minister has touted this "world-leading approach," and it wouldn't be surprising for certain US officials to follow suit
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ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode mtracey.substack.com/p/officially-d…
I am following the laissez faire Substack model where for the first little while, everything published will be freely available to everybody. However, you can still sign up for the paid version right away. Eventually some kind of regulatory schema will kick in though so ACT FAST!
^Clarification, there's no paywall or anything for at least the first month or so. "Paid version" just means that you choose to pay for a subscription, which for now offers the exact same stuff as a free subscription
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