David Roberts3d ago
Everyone's making fun of this piece -- appropriately, because it's embarrassingly bad -- but among other things it is one of the cleanest examples of Murc's Law you will ever find. Reactionaries hate immigrants ... because of the word choices of left activists & academics!

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Show threadDavid Roberts
You kind of have to remind yourself, because it just breaks the brain, but the Atlantic is still publishing this "random lefty used words that annoyed me" shit *while fascists are destroying the country*. Not that there's a "threat" of fascism. It's here! Look out your goddamn window!
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Show threadDavid Roberts3d ago
It's just so grotesquely irresponsible & indulgent.
Show threadAdam Kennedy1d ago
@volts.wtf Same old shit. “If the left hadn’t asked for human rights for all humans, the right wouldn’t be stripping rights from people they want to de-humanize.”
Show threadAdam Kennedy1d ago
@volts.wtf “These death camps are the direct result of the civil rights movement”
Show threadcanevecchio3d ago
@volts.wtf The Atlantic's gotta Atlantic. It's what they do. They are, and always have been, the last bastion of puerile sophistry.