On Jack’s One Year Anniversary, Twitter Remains a Mess

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10 points·retupmoc01··2 comments

Why does every story now, regardless of media outlet, have to attach race and politics to everything?

Does it really matter if Louie CK is a white guy who quit Twitter?

Does it matter why or how Donald Trump uses Twitter when Hilary Clinton does and says the same stupid things he does?

Why did the article single out Milo Yiannopoulos (conservative) as someone who got banned and then praise how Black Lives Matter is using the platform?

I really thought some of the industry media I consumed would be above bringing race and politics into every story, but it's every where now and really disconcerting.

It's true. . . .journalism is dead.

There's a great anecdote in Victor Klemperer's diary of life as a Jew in Nazi Germany. He was a longtime subscriber to a cat magazine. In 1932 his cat magazine was all about cats. By 1935 it couldn't shut up about the virtues of the "German Cat."

Not that our society is Nazi -- it's pretty much the opposite. Nonetheless, the feeling of everything becoming poisoned by politics is inescapable. If you prefer you can go over to Breitbart and read about how Twitter is a mess because it doesn't respect free speech and banned Milo. Somehow I don't think this will leave you feeling any better.

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