I gave up my NYT subscription after the 1619 project. What stuns me most are the legions of old school Boomer liberals who are yet unwoke to the reality that the ground shifted beneath them while they slept and their notions of liberalism no longer exist at places like the NYT. Skimming through the Gray Lady is less what they do to becom…
I gave up my NYT subscription after the 1619 project. What stuns me most are the legions of old school Boomer liberals who are yet unwoke to the reality that the ground shifted beneath them while they slept and their notions of liberalism no longer exist at places like the NYT. Skimming through the Gray Lady is less what they do to become informed than a ritual to reassure them of their intellectual superiority and their membership in the tribe of the elite. We owe our gratitude to the younger generation of bright journalists like Bari Weiss who, quite unlike their elders, have had the intellectual perception and moral courage to call things as they are.
Yeah, I was pretty much giving them the benefit of the doubt; stupid is more accurate. So, I'm having this discussion about the NYT a while back with a coastal Boomer Phd ex-college professor who is digging in hard on the premise that NYT is politically balanced, leaning neither left or right, the proof of which he avers is that David Brooks writes for its editorial page. David Brooks as in the NYT straw-man conservative that no other conservative on the planet ever cites or refers to. David Brooks is to the NYT what a butt thong is to a pole dancer.
I gave up my NYT subscription after the 1619 project. What stuns me most are the legions of old school Boomer liberals who are yet unwoke to the reality that the ground shifted beneath them while they slept and their notions of liberalism no longer exist at places like the NYT. Skimming through the Gray Lady is less what they do to become informed than a ritual to reassure them of their intellectual superiority and their membership in the tribe of the elite. We owe our gratitude to the younger generation of bright journalists like Bari Weiss who, quite unlike their elders, have had the intellectual perception and moral courage to call things as they are.
I don't thing these people are unwoke to reality. It is entirely possible that they are just that fucking stupid.
Yeah, I was pretty much giving them the benefit of the doubt; stupid is more accurate. So, I'm having this discussion about the NYT a while back with a coastal Boomer Phd ex-college professor who is digging in hard on the premise that NYT is politically balanced, leaning neither left or right, the proof of which he avers is that David Brooks writes for its editorial page. David Brooks as in the NYT straw-man conservative that no other conservative on the planet ever cites or refers to. David Brooks is to the NYT what a butt thong is to a pole dancer.
Exactly!