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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo
@originalist.bsky.social

"Bari Weiss's CBS Evening News replaced John Dickerson whose investigation "Excited Delirium" into murder of Elijah McClain was nominated for an Emmy, with Tony Dokoupil whose claim to fame is calling Ta-Nehisi Coates an "extremist" on national television" bsky.app/profile/chad... "bias history":

cnn.comCBS News says heated Ta-Nehisi Coates interview did not meet editorial standards after criticism | CNN BusinessCBS News executives said Monday that a heated morning show interview with acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates, during which his new book was compared to “extremist” writings, did not meet the network’s ...
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social

"their careers are based on their appeal to Andrew Sullivan and editors of the Atlantic, official publication of the donor class look at Conor Friedersdorf or Thomas Chatterton Williams look at Bari Weiss And that's who all the "free speech" culture stuff is aimed at" And NYT Sulzberger and WaPo

Autumn Warhammer Chick
@celticdragon1.bsky.social

The authoritarian religious right exists with or without billionaires, and they were going for this shit well before they were yoked by the astroturf C street crowd. You fundamentally don't understand their motivation and willingness to fight.

Matt Williams
@willhomes7.bsky.social

Going back even further, the first Klan killed and terrorized white Republicans who supported Reconstruction. The blood and soil idea of a homeland isn’t American, although evil doers have consistently asserted so.

Vamos Heavenly Creature🇺🇦
@bluedotspecialfl.bsky.social

Hang on a sec. Democracy is up against white nationalism, Nazism and Christian white nationalism. I don’t think any of those ideologies are legitimate cultures. We had a civil war about the first, the second is evil and caused WW2 and the last is expressly prohibited by The U.S. Constitution.

Vamos Heavenly Creature🇺🇦
@bluedotspecialfl.bsky.social

What’s happening is a Nazi fascist coup from within. SCOTUS and Fox and ELON made sure the pedophile TRAITOR was installed. And don’t forget, the richest people in the world don’t pay taxes. We pay their taxes. Why? I have no fucking idea. They could pay millions and millions and not feel it.