Calling the atrocities un-American is important. We have dismally fail to live up to our ideals again and again. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner and a rapist. But his words in the Declaration of Independence are America too. We have done terrible things. We have made a mockery of our rhetoric again and again. We have killed and tortured and raped and slaughtered. We must not let that happen again. We must rise to the challenge of our claim that all men people are created equal. Those who are torturing children do not own the flag. The true patriots are those protesting at the gates. Update 10-13-2018: Was looking back through the blog and noticed the gendered quotation.
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What the fuck @NYTimes? I only wish I could cancel my subscription a second time. Why in the hell is your executive editor sharing the stage with a man who’s proud of his virulent racism?
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…bigotry is easy and those who cherish it are lazy. Make it difficult and many people may find it more trouble than it’s worth to harass, shame, and otherwise abuse online those different from themselves. Looks like reddit has had some success driving off the bigots.
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I can’t believe I’ve had to add a “Nazis” tag to my blog. Ugh.
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And on top of that, they don’t have online cancelation! The automated phone system couldn’t find my account since it was too old. I had to be transferred between two (very nice) agents and spend ~10 minutes to actually do it. Goodbye & good riddance @NYTimes.
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So we had the NYTimes’ fawning Nazi article. That inadequate response to the feedback. The absurd number of times they interviewed the other Nazi. Lack of profiles of actually marginalized folk. Lack of anyone to the left of Krugman.
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