It went well beyond rivalry and enmity. Tech journos slandered Oculus maker Palmer Luckey (and others) and tied him to white nationalists because of his support of Trump and now this war between journalists against tech people is steeped in all aspects of the woke war on culture.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1588193146072088576
The journo war on tech guys is immersed in the culture war. Journos embroiled techy conservatives’ support for Trump in their attacks. There’s gamergate, which was the community backlash on journos. There’s also woke tech people forcing Code of Conduct agreements on SV startups.
Naturally, journalists took the side of the woke techies against the folks like Musk et al because they saw them as a conduit to take down SV.
That guy’s thread has part of the truth as to how it all started but it’s missing every crucial aspect of the culture war.
That guy’s thread has part of the truth as to how it all started but it’s missing every crucial aspect of the culture war.
Don’t forget how Gawker, which was another participant in NYT’s big war on tech, went after Peter Thiel and got sued into oblivion (via Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit). And those were just the opening volleys.
I’m not even covering 5% of what happened back then and what’s happening now. It involves everything from the “Shitty Media Men List” to #Metoo and #gamergate and the personal destruction of Uber’s founder, the wokification of Vice, the sabotage of WeWork and its founder, etc.
Tl;dr establishment journalists are not your friends. They are the vanguard of the woke mob.
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