Molly Whitecan someone please ask michael lewis to stop referring to the sam bankman-fried trial as a "lynching" holy shit
there are approximately one hundred thousand miles between a jury trial of a powerful white billionaire and the historical extrajudicial murders by a powerful racial majority against Black Americans
this (in Puck, paywalled https://puck.news/michael-lewis-has-more-thoughts-on-s-b-f/) is at least the second time he's drawn the comparison (see also his interview in Time https://time.com/6321668/michael-lewis-sam-bankman-fried-going-infinite/)
i was at the trial too, and there was levity, but i had SEVERAL conversations with journalists there about the gravity and challenging emotions of watching someone barreling headfirst towards spending a substantial portion of the rest of his life in prison
GadgetGav@molly0xfff Whether it was covered with levity or seriousness, it was all self inflicted by SBF. From the initial crime, through the pre-trial media tour, to the witness stand, he brought it all on himself. The polar opposite of a lynching.
rhizome@rhizome @molly0xfff It wasn’t all pinned on him. Many of his co-conspirators pled guilty. There may yet be more trials coming.
And it has nothing to do with Lewis characterizing it as a lynching.
And it has nothing to do with Lewis characterizing it as a lynching.
Fazal Majid@gadgetgav @molly0xfff it’s unfortunate the prosecution felt it had to offer equally guilty Caroline Ellison a deal to testify against her erstwhile beau, given how slam-dunk of a case it was.
@fazalmajid @molly0xfff I wonder if they were all offered plea deals but SBF thought he could talk his way out of it.
@gadgetgav @molly0xfff I doubt they’d offer a SBF a plea deal. As the face for the scam, anything but an exemplary sentence would be a failure.
@fazalmajid @gadgetgav he was not offered one
@molly0xfff @gadgetgav Good. The scumbag deserves to die in jail with no possibility of parole. As do his parents and associates like Ellison.
MonkE@molly0xfff All the fancy interviews he gave came back to haunt him at the trial.
Steve Gisselbrecht@molly0xfff
The unfortunate timing of him writing an entire book-length hagiography that went to print just as his subject was being exposed as a fraud meant he either had to admit having been completely fooled or double down. Alas, he has chosen, and not wisely.
The unfortunate timing of him writing an entire book-length hagiography that went to print just as his subject was being exposed as a fraud meant he either had to admit having been completely fooled or double down. Alas, he has chosen, and not wisely.
Ashton@stevegis_ssg @molly0xfff one wonders if he’s incapable of such self reflection.
Todd Walker@molly0xfff that Time portrait is the epitome of “shit-eating grin” 😒
ryan onstott@molly0xfff tech people figured out long ago that you can get away with (purposeful) confusion of quality and scale
Stanley Jones@molly0xfff Won’t someone please think of the white billionaires?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/22/jim-irsay-dui-arrest-white-billonaire-prejudjice
LambdaDuck@molly0xfff @stanley holy shit! i would’ve thought it was the onion!
RodneyPetersonTalentAgencyThat was so utterly ridiculous! “They would’ve let me get away with driving drunk if I wasn’t a billionaire!” Sure thing, shitbag.
baris_rin@molly0xfff that's a big yikes right there
Public Health is for Everyone@molly0xfff Well said. "Crime is a social construct because $1000 in wage theft is treated very differently than $1000 in retail theft" someone's tweet, forgot who. EDITED: I just realized I totally missed the context of your posts my bad, but still well said.
Joyce Park@molly0xfff Also let's face it: SBF did everything possible to make his own life into a spectacle!
Allan Chow@troutgirl @molly0xfff guy is such a tool.
Dr. Dan Killam@molly0xfff a man who has lost the ability to stop and think about what he's saying
Chad Geidel@molly0xfff Can everyone please refer to Michael Lewis as a "layperson" when it comes to anything cryptocurrency related? His finance background has zero relevance here.
*sigh*
Allie@molly0xfff oh my god. Is there no one around him in his sphere who can save him from himself here?
Because Y I K E S
Because Y I K E S
@molly0xfff Yikes! I used to like his writing, but that’s just so wrong. I tried to listen to his podcast about the trial and it was bad too. Only got through a couple of episodes. He’s dead to me now.
Chris Brown@molly0xfff Speaks loudly how being held accountable is a simile to Lynching and how it's always a white male being "lynched" by courts is equal to a mob lynching a Black male. Not even a dog whistle anymore, just more Megaphone. Sigh.
Jason Parker-Burlingham 🏳️🌈@molly0xfff oooof, brb gonna donate my Lewis books to my local library's book sale. Someone else can own 'em, I can be free of feeling bad for not reading them. Win-win.
TRNottommy
Pablo Rrrrrrr@molly0xfff Just like comparisons to the Holocaust, the word lynching should be kept for very rare occasions. This is not it.
Darryl Ramm@molly0xfff Michael Clueless. This guy deserves zero media attention and pandering.
Ether Diver@molly0xfff that guy is a fucking joke.
Pax Ahimsa GethenDisgusting and shameful comparison.
yuvipanda@molly0xfff oooof, the whiteness is overflowing
bumblefudge@molly0xfff while we're at it, can someone just ask michael lewis to stop, period? it's not like anything else he's doing is particularly useful to humanity
Uair@molly0xfff Soooo....if I get this straight, journalists reporting on the conviction of a major criminal= spectators at a lynching?
Reality doesn't get a voice in a dark age.
eigenman 
@molly0xfff Lewis sounds like a crypto bro who can't come to terms with the fact that his crypto coin is worthless now. It's fitting.
Jonathan HendrySomeone needs to have A Word with Tabitha Soren.
Adlangx@molly0xfff It's bizarre how much he carries water for Bankman-Fried. The interview he did in Time a month ago was him making excuse after excuse for him (he also mentioned lynching)
https://time.com/6321668/michael-lewis-sam-bankman-fried-going-infinite/
@molly0xfff he’s … kind of a bad person huh?
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
just adrienne@timnitGebru @molly0xfff TIMNIT IT'S WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
arestelle@molly0xfff jesus fuck
John Mark 
☑️@molly0xfff this is gross
ferricoxide@molly0xfff
Somebody gonna come down with a case of the vapors.
Somebody gonna come down with a case of the vapors.
Lewis@molly0xfff I want in on the tunafish SBF cartel! He should sell shares..
Annie@molly0xfff Even if someone thinks SBF was treated unfairly yeah.. lynching is not the metaphor to use here.
cohomology is FUN!@molly0xfff this is one of the most offensive and absurd comparisons I have ever seen made not in jest
Kim Scheinberg@molly0xfff
Please let this be the last time any of us has to hear from him
He's been somewhere between disingenuous and dishonest for as long as I've been reading him, but the racism (that was readily apparent in The Blind Side) is beyond the pale at this point
JonbjohnsI wish someone would love me unconditionally the way Michael Lewis loves SBF
@molly0xfff
*Monkey paw retracts a finger*
*Monkey paw retracts a finger*
ljs@molly0xfff while the comparison is deeply distasteful + frankly offensive, I absolutely agree, I feel like part of this is the fact that so many horrific shits out there have behaved appallingly with crypto + much else + have not been punished, so there's some sense in some of these guys that some people are being 'vilified' while the rest are OK.
The fact that people like musk continue to exist inexplicably unprosecuted in the world gives confidence to such shits and cover to many, many charlatans
The fact that people like musk continue to exist inexplicably unprosecuted in the world gives confidence to such shits and cover to many, many charlatans