from the who-said-that dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful aspect is an nameless touch upon our submit about how “neutrality” and “free speech” turn out to be excuses for bigotry:
You may’t be impartial about bigotry
“Neutrality” is for components of coverage, like “What needs to be the highest tax fee” or “ought to we construct a brand new interstate freeway” or “Which candidate needs to be Mayor.”
You may’t be “impartial” about somebody’s proper to exist, or the concept folks of the incorrect ethnicity aren’t folks or can’t be trusted underneath any circumstances.
You could be impartial about who needs to be the following Mayor of NYC. It’s high quality in case your staff publicly disagree, even.
But it surely’s not high quality to say a candidate “comes from a tradition that lies about every thing. It’s actually a advantage to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will study this lesson the laborious manner.”
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a touch upon our submit about Bari Weiss wielding precisely that tyranny of false stability:
Conservatives are the one ones not anticipated to do any self-reflection or essential pondering. Capturing from the hip together with your intestine feeling primarily based in your echo chamber brainwashing expertise is all of the truthiness you want. Everybody else is accountable for politely appropriately their misperceptions whereas additionally no offending them and possibly additionally simply altering actuality to go well with their preferences.
For editor’s alternative on the insightful aspect, we begin out with Thad and one other remark about Weiss’s reign at CBS:
It’s precisely the identical justification Bezos used for neutering the Put up. Individuals understand bias that must be corrected, and due to this fact the suitable factor to do is assume that’s true and proper for it fairly than interrogate it in any manner.
Subsequent, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a remark about how the peddlers of “neutrality” ought to admit what they’re:
Even Elon Musk, everlasting 12-year-old although he could also be, determined to successfully personal Twitter changing into a Nazi bar underneath his possession. Dude likes to rail in opposition to “wokeness” and shit himself, and that new plan to have Grok change current Twitter algorithms will most definitely profit customers and speech that Musk prefers. If a shithead like him can come clean with operating a Nazi bar, these different cowards don’t have any excuses.
Over on the humorous aspect, our first place winner is Thad once more, this time with a reply quoting one other remark about “stability”:
“I perceive the criticism of false stability. However”
Good; no notes.
In second place, it’s Nathan F with a remark concerning the Baltimore Ravens blaming losses on gamers enjoying video video games:
Effectively.. no less than they weren’t enjoying any model of Mario Occasion, in any other case the entire group would hate one another and never truly be a group.
For editor’s alternative on the humorous aspect, we begin out with a grim nameless joke about Trump’s newest chilling feedback:
“We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like useless.”
I imply, what Nobel Peace Prize hopeful hasn’t used that actual phrase earlier than?
Lastly, for a change of topic, it’s Pixelation with a remark concerning the wave of net browsers with built-in AI chat bots:
Sigh
This can be a nice concept, identical to connecting residence home equipment to the web…
That’s all for this week, of us!
