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2020-01-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

The New York Times ran a disturbing op-ed. But the backlash misses the mark. (i.e. don't boycott the NYT! Keep journalist jobs safe!)

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Interesting how the Left denounced the Bell Curve, but acts in a manner that actually supports its premise, that is minorities can't compete and must always have various programs to make up for that deficiency not based upon skill but based upon an adjectival descriptive of the group.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-02 02:40|| 2020-01-02 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Shitshow, Part Infinity

Posted by Lex 2020-01-02 02:58|| 2020-01-02 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Why pay someone to lie to you? The Grey Lady needs to fail. WAPO is another. I'd put more faith in the National Enquirer to give you the truth. O.K., if you take with a grain of salt the Martian, UFOs and alien stories.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-02 08:24|| 2020-01-02 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 . The Times, like most other globally available web publications (including Breitbart and any number of white supremacist sites), benefits from umbrage as much as applause.

Maybe. Maybe not. That strategy depends on who's taking the umbrage.

A bit of recent history is in order. Let's stroll down Memory Kane, shall we?

2019: Dean Basquet makes it crystal clear in the recent staff meeting that the Times is now nothing more than a one-note propaganda organ. The first note, per Basquet, was the grand Boris Badenov-fractured-fairy-take, the Russia Hoax, but then "the story changed."

So now it's racism-round-the-clock ("I feel like racism is everything," in the moronic phrasing of one of Baquet's young cadres).

Bret Stephens is not with the pogrom, er, program. Token GOP Never Trumper and Deplorable-kicking snobthat he is, Stephens is useful for trashing Trumpism.

Yet Stephens nonetheless retains his neoconservatism which, people forget, arose in the mid-1960s with Daniel Moynihan's devastating report on the impending collapse of the "negro family."

Herb et al, take note: Neoconservatism, the movement that nurtured Stephens, was primarily a domestically-focused liberal New Yorker reaction to the crime wave and other urban ills which Moynihan, Irving Kristol, Norman Podgorerz and others traced to the welfare state and its effects on black family stability in the 1960s.

Nothing could be more diametrically opposed to the Shitshow/NYT's new race-obsessed "1619" hallucinations. Stephens' musings on Ashkenazi jews' evident cognitive superiority - deny it all you like, haters; eppur si muovo - makes Stephens Worse Than Trump.

Stephens has a sharp tongue, a way with words, and a disdain for cant-- in contrast to his pathetic "kick me please" fellow NYTNT-er David Brooks. Stephens shows a fierce refusal to engage in the most absurd of the Shitshow's racist nonsense and mau-mauing, and for that, the Shitshow's jacobins will decree that he must be destroyed.

He'll be gone from the Times twice-weekly columnist ranks by Summer.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-02 08:55|| 2020-01-02 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Futility aside, to threaten to withhold revenue to any respectable news publication at this moment in history is hard to justify.

You might want to take up that discussion with your (former) advertisers before you start badgering your readership.

Posted by Raj 2020-01-02 09:06|| 2020-01-02 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 By the way - nice comment, Lex - keep 'em coming!

Posted by Raj 2020-01-02 09:08|| 2020-01-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you Mr Raj. Awaiting the next installment of your forensic accounting report re Lil' Crackpipe's (pace Kurt S.) money trail.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-02 09:18|| 2020-01-02 09:18|| Front Page Top

#8 we should not wish for a day when The New York Times does not exist

Takeaway is, we don't have to wish. We can make it not exist. Thanks.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-02 12:46|| 2020-01-02 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, I've perused Rantburg. I think I'm gonna go read Breitbart now.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-02 14:16|| 2020-01-02 14:16|| Front Page Top

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