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Jamison Foserevery time one of these not-so-secretly-racist "rising star" conservatives is unmasked as *extra* racist I do a quick check and YEP they've been published by The New York Times
Heidi Li Feldman@foser Hi there! I wish we bumped into each other more here.
@heidilifeldman Hi! Me too! I am not here much. I am every where a little bit and nowhere a lot. At some point I'll figure out where to be, and how much to be there. Maybe.
Unabogie has voted Kamala!@foser and they always howl with indignation when you point out their dog whistles.
Priya Chand@foser what shits me is when I read Tim Wu’s book and people have been complaining about their both sidesing since the 50s, how have they been so respected for so long
dklokeThey've been respected for the reporting they publish, and use that to bolster their editorial opinions and choices.
Eddie the Bulldog@foser “both sides” in now an exploit for the nazi movement.
klausfiend has moved@foser wow, The racist dickhole behind the sonnenrad in a campaign video is a fellow at the National Review? Their bar seems unpleasantly low.
PetterOfCats@foser the old grey lady she ain’t what she used to be…
Roger Moore@PetterOfCats @foser
They're exactly who they've always been. The NYT has been fascist-curious since Mussolini.
They're exactly who they've always been. The NYT has been fascist-curious since Mussolini.
Fahri Reza 🍉Is there browser addons that flags articles which the author are fascists
kira :3@foser really makes you wonder when someone higher up the chain is gonna get popped lol. the nature of their pieces is very right-flavored
Floaty Birb@foser I'm increasingly convinced that the New York Times is just some kind of long running prank that the USA keeps playing on itself.
@foser i am sorry, the NYTimes is notmy measure of truth
blake shaw 🇵🇸@foser the NYT spreading fascist propaganda? some things never change, ig
myrmepropagandistInstitutions like the New York Times have an intense desire to be seen as neutral and rational in the eyes of people who at this point have no respect for them-- and this desire is so important that any harm that might come from legitimizing people who have eliminationist ideas just isn't as important.
It's a kind of affirmative action for conservative ideas only practiced by centrist liberals.
Can you imagine centrist conservatives ever even having such a concern?
Moose Jolly Holcomb@futurebird @foser I don't even think they're trying to be "neutral" any more, I think they're just trying to have plausible deniability that they are trying to be "neutral".
Cassandrich@futurebird @foser I so want someone to pwn the NYT and publish the past 10 years of their internal emails exposing everything about how management pushes this stuff.
Mark W. Alexander@dalias @futurebird @foser
Have you bought your #MegaMillions ticket yet?
Yeah. Me neither. **shrug**
It'd be nice, though.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@futurebird @foser every single time nyt is shown doing this, i'm tempted to post this:
HITLER TAMED BY PRISON.
Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria.
Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company. By Wireleas to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
BERLIN, Dec. 20.—Adolph Hitler, once the demi-god of the reactionary extremists, was released on parole from imprisonment at Fortress Landsberg, Bavaria, today and immediately left in an auto for Munich. He looked a much sadder and wiser man today than last Spring when he, with Ludendorff and other radical extremists, appeared before a Munich court charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Government.
His behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that, like his political organization, known as the Völkischer, was no longer to be feared. It is belleved he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the country of his birth.
(also note that 1924's nyt style guide did not have problems with including german umlauts where needed)
Lacunalingua
Agape@mawhrin @futurebird @foser "When did the NYT become such a fascist rag?"
"Well, I've got some bad news for you..."
"Well, I've got some bad news for you..."
When will the NY Post give me a column to write about police abolition, raising taxes, and 999 million bike lanes literally in YOUR living room?
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@futurebird @foser the ants don’t even need those bike lanes!
@futurebird @foser
> Can you imagine centrist conservatives ever even having such a concern?
i thought about those transphobes who claim they don't have a problem with gays, or those folks pushing for racist policies under the guise of formal equality, but that's just lip service and outright lying and trojan horsing not the actual substantive concessions the liberals so liberally (sorry) hand out
i guess there are some generally-conservative Christians who still take the help the poor stuff seriously and want to try to advocate for better policies to mitigate poverty, but those are vanishingly few and their voices necessarily timid, and most of even those are silenced and absorbed by ideas about private charity being what really matters and everything else being tainted by state violence
> Can you imagine centrist conservatives ever even having such a concern?
i thought about those transphobes who claim they don't have a problem with gays, or those folks pushing for racist policies under the guise of formal equality, but that's just lip service and outright lying and trojan horsing not the actual substantive concessions the liberals so liberally (sorry) hand out
i guess there are some generally-conservative Christians who still take the help the poor stuff seriously and want to try to advocate for better policies to mitigate poverty, but those are vanishingly few and their voices necessarily timid, and most of even those are silenced and absorbed by ideas about private charity being what really matters and everything else being tainted by state violence
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@futurebird @foser the owners of the new york times aren't centrist liberals. they're just multimillionaires of the media oligarchy. they have great power but there's some whose power is greater. their positions aren't ideological. they're only financial.
jz.tuskDing ding ding, you said the magic word: Power!
I agree that there's an incredibly low standard for a right winger to get published in the NYT, but my guess as to why aligns with blogdiva's - they want to show that they are useful to powerful people and institutions. They are the highest quality courtiers!
My husband used to work there. It's not a one dimensional institution. There are a lot of "true believers" who really think they are Doing Good -- and who maybe are like 2/3rds of the time-- there are other interests at play... but there is a surprising amount of workplace "democracy" and meetings and handwringing.
That there are so many people there who believe in the power of journalism just makes the outcomes all the more depressing.
@futurebird @foser i know quite a few people myself. am referring to the owners. at the end of the day, they're the one's setting the tone. their appeasement has nothing to do with journalism. this is looong known about NYT here in new york city. and this new generation is proving they are worse than the previous ones.
@futurebird @foser that's the thing about centrism and being neutral. You go wherever the Overton Window takes you.
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Jarvis Slacks
spherulitic@foser the New York Times hasn’t changed one bit since they published the puff pieces admiring Hitler in 1922