Share on Facebook. How many years now have black Republicans been dismissed as “Uncle Toms” and token blacks?Should Taibbi really be surprised that eventually, this racial virtue-signaling would result in casualties on the left? Most involved groups of reporters and staffers demanding the firing or reprimand of colleagues who’d made politically ‘problematic’ editorial or social media decisions.” Taibbi lamented about Taibbi’s acknowledgment of the collective insanity of the left is refreshing but misses a major point. What it really accomplishes is it puts your readers in the dark about what a huge segment of the country is thinking.”I think he’s exactly right. 306 replies by Matt Taibbi and others Jonathan W. Jun 29 We've seen so many Black people being brutalized recently and on the streets protesting for their rights, while people are sitting and arguing the merits of the latest "woke of the week" book. It was inevitable that the hunters would ultimately become the hunted when the left became so consumed with their own self-proclaimed righteousness that they’d compete with each other for who won the medal for the most un-racist. Where has Taibbi been all these years when conservatives were branded racist for opposing racial quotas and taxpayer-funded abortion. Where was Taibbi when Republican support for Voter ID was was likened to Jim Crow laws?
“It was not Lee’s opinion. Taibbi’s concern seems to be rooted in his fear of a liberal circular firing squad, and the casualties among the left because of the outrage mob. Terms under which this service is provided to you
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. His view is that the Times, as a leading paper, should try to represent the full spectrum of actual debate.“When the member of congress opens up his Times in the morning, he wants to see what the parameters of debate are,” Taibbi said. All Rights Reserved. So if he were to lose his job as a result of that, where is he going to go? I am so fucking tired.” She followed with, “Stop being racist Lee.”The tweet received tens of thousands of likes and responses along the lines of, “Lee Fang has been like this for years, but the current moment only makes his anti-Blackness more glaring,” and “Lee Fang spouting racist bullshit it must be a day ending in day.” A significant number of Fang’s co-workers, nearly all white, as well as reporters from other major news organizations like the New York Times and MSNBC and political activists (one former Elizabeth Warren staffer tweeted, “Get him!”), issued likes and messages of support for the notion that Fang was a racist. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. It’s very illiberal in its conception of the world.”He cited the battle within the NY Times newsroom over the Sen. Cotton op-ed as another example. “I couldn’t believe they were coming for the man’s job over something I said,” he recounts. Share on Twitter. “It’s bullying in tone, it’s accusatory, it uses shaming tactics and it doesn’t particularly believe in civil liberties. Fox after that?”Taibbi made clear in his piece and in the interview with the Hill that he sees the Fang incident as just one example of a more widespread change taking place in journalism. Fang didn’t put these words in his mouth. It was my opinion.”Taibbi appeared on the Hill’s “Rising” show this week to talk about the incident. Pelosi was never going to deal on unemployment benefitsArtist who painted thin blue line around police station ordered to remove itMaxwell taunted by her former alleged sex slave with poolside tweetCopyright HotAir.com/Salem Media. Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi wrote about the incident A co-worker of Fang’s, Akela Lacy, wrote, “Tired of being made to deal continually with my co-worker @lhfang continuing to push black on black crime narratives after being repeatedly asked not to. He continued, “These people are thinking this.
There was another similar situation last week which I mentioned in passing Again, the person who said this is a real person named Max. “By my count, at least eight news organizations dealt with internal uprisings (it was likely more). But for publishing and thereby amplifying a voice that some thought sounded too much like a conservative response about black-on-black crime, Fang was denounced as a racist by one of his co-workers! Or 2007 onward when Republican opposition to Barack Obama was branded racist by default? He continued, “What ends up happening is that people just sort of shrink back from wherever they perceive the boundaries are and don’t say anything. He said the new “style of thought” had originated on college campuses but was now finding a home in many newsrooms. Taibbi conceded there are some arguments that are simply beyond the pale, but he said the debate about where to draw the line was happening because there were two different worldviews in conflict about how to draw that line. Matt Taibbi: False accusations of racism are destroying the media. “Essentially the problem is if you say a certain thing and an employee accuses you of racism, either your career is over or your reputation is ruined,” he said. Though he had support within the organization, no one among his co-workers was willing to say anything in his defense publicly…To save his career, Fang had to craft a public apology for “insensitivity to the lived experience of others.” According to one friend of his, it’s been communicated to Fang that his continued employment at The Intercept is contingent upon avoiding comments that may upset colleagues. Rolling Stone magazine is a liberal rag, and editor Matt Taibbi is unquestionably a liberal. In each case, with Lee Fang, with the fired data analyst and at the NY Times, you have accusations of racism used to push people out of their jobs (or in Fang’s case come very close).”It’s this mechanism that’s being repeated over and over again.”At the end of this interview, Krystal Ball asked Taibbi where to draw the line between ideas that belong in a paper like the NY Times and ideas that you wouldn’t want to see given space anywhere.