Keeping Hope Alive!

Bret Stephens of the NY Times welcomes Sarah Jeong aboard, sort of.

He explains that he does not favor judging people for their worst tweets and goes on:

Not surprisingly, some on the left pilloried me for that argument. So allow me to apply precisely the same logic in defense of my soon-to-be colleague at The Times, Korean-American technology writer Sarah Jeong, who is joining the editorial board with her own extensive history of unfortunate tweets.

Among these: “White men are bull—”; “#CancelWhitePeople”; “oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men” and “f— white women lol.” She has also bashed the police, called for censoringa fellow journalist, and believed the 2014 University of Virginia rape hoax, in the course of which she lashed out at “white men” and “white college boys.”

We should call many of these tweets for what they are: racist. I’ve seen some acrobatic efforts to explain why Jeong’s tweets should be treated as “quasi-satirical,” hyperbolical and a function of “social context.” But the criterion for racism is either objective or it’s meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn’t a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them.

Hmm, with supporters like these who needs critics?

But the real shocker is the NY Times comments section. I clicked on the Readers Choices and copied the most up-voted comments as of roughly 10 PM Thursday. Here we go - pretty uniformly the Times readers who passed by this column are not happy with the Times positioning. 

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This is the Times so it is no great trick to find readers echoing the "It's not racism if its directed at whites" line of reasoning, but there are many fewer buyers of that logic.

So here's hoping - even though the NY Times editors won't stand up to them (or have become them!) the lunatic fringe is still the fringe.

Comments

[henry]

Blah blah blah blah

New Thread

[joan]

I am hours behind, just lol'd at Miss Marple's 9:26 about the rooster.

[Dave (in MA)]

INDIAN DUDE

The last one I got was "Hello, I am from Windows" and some crap about my computer having been hacked. I pretended to be concerned, but I put the phone down and let him keep jabbering to nobody until he figured out he was wasting his time.

[GUS]

Bingo Kev, besides can you imagine ROSENSTEIN "wrestling".?

[Kevlar Kid]

"No we don't. We suspect it."

Ext:

I was under the impression Admiral Rogers conveyed as much to POTUS.

No?

Kev

[clarice feldman]

daddy, my guess is Sullivan was rendering his decision based on the thought that the deportation was designed to strip him of jurisdiction and was, how shall we call it?--rude . It's the kind of prissy thing judges usually do.

[daddy]

BREAKING: Notes from DOJ official Bruce Ohr indicate Steele and Simpson -- aka the Clinton campaign -- were also behind the false rumors that Trump created a "secret server" with Russian-based Alfa Bank through Trump Tower. The hoax sent the FBI on yet another wild goose chase

It's sounding more and more to me like that "Huge Mosaic" that Comey said was the basis for the FISA warrant is total bulls**t. It has always been and remains nothing more than the Dossier that Christopher Steele initially cooked up and with the related BS he later fed to Bruce Ohr via Nellie. The only thing that strikes me as not having come out of Chris Dteele's mouth is the Popadoploous nonsense of babbling to the Aussie minister while drunk in London, and that has been shown to be falsely reported and probably orchestrated by the FBI via Halper, etc.

[daddy]

Thanks, Clarice. I knew I could count on you;)

[maryrose]

Daddy:
That is s good summary of what has been going on.
They went to an awful lot of trouble to get Trump both before and after the election.
Their utter failure in this endeavor must provide many sleepless nights.
Now preparing myself for some prep walks.

[Pinandpuller]

Dave in MA

Not a bad point for the ride back. Got another compliment in CO from a 30ish deplorable looking dude.

Joan

Casper, WY should be optimal if there's no clouds. Thanks

The whole length of KS nobody layed up in the left lane till the very last minute some idiot from CA. And no sunflowers till CO either.

[Pinandpuller]

Oh daddy I like the Alaska plates with the Kodiak Bear. Very nice.

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

I just caught the gist but Jim Florentine used to prank phone solicitors. He got police called on him at least once.