The Atlantic has run the "you just can't say ANYTHING these days" essay again. This time, it's credited to Sarah Hepola. What's infuriating about this essay, no matter whose byline it carries this week, is that it pretends there are "forbidden" opinions that cry out to be debated, but...never tells you what they are. Because they're "forbidden," you see. I would love it if just one of these pieces offered a list of the topics you "can't write about." But they never do. "I’d grown terrified of being banished for views I considered reasonable, or at least worth discussing" — LIKE WHAT? COME ON, GIVE US JUST ONE. I DARE YOU. She gets SO close, too: "suddenly we were living in a time when so much that was once considered fair game for discussion (education, biological differences, the benefits of policing) had become dangerous." Love that second one, tucked carefully into that parenthetical... I'm sure someone at the Atlantic would be happy to give Hepola Charles Murray's email address; they could talk "biological differences" all day long and into the night. Oh, but she wouldn't be able to "discuss" it with readers of the Atlantic! The loss to our culture is incalculable, truly.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 12 March 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
Why do artists and designers keep doing this? And why don't editors tell them, "I see what you did there, ha ha. Now put together the real version by deadline."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FO72AjvXIAUKEsu.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 March 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
Stupid, but funny.
Fact Check-Fabricated image purports to show racist headline published by The Atlantic on Judge Clarence ThomasBy Reuters Fact CheckA digitally altered image circulating online purports to show a racist headline published by The Atlantic about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas following the Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. No such headline was published by the outlet, and the image is digitally altered.The Atlantic logo is viewable at the top of the image, while the purported headline reads: “It’s Not Racist To Call Judge Clarence Thomas The N Word.”A user who shared the image on Twitter said: “The “tolerant” Left is only tolerant of those who agree with them. Step out of line and the true nature of the Left presents itself”.One iteration of the image gathered more than 1,000 likes at the time of writing....A spokesperson for The Atlantic told Reuters no such headline was published by the outlet.“This is a fabricated article, and we are reporting it as fake and a trademark infringement,” the spokesperson told Reuters.
A digitally altered image circulating online purports to show a racist headline published by The Atlantic about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas following the Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. No such headline was published by the outlet, and the image is digitally altered.
The Atlantic logo is viewable at the top of the image, while the purported headline reads: “It’s Not Racist To Call Judge Clarence Thomas The N Word.”
A user who shared the image on Twitter said: “The “tolerant” Left is only tolerant of those who agree with them. Step out of line and the true nature of the Left presents itself”.
One iteration of the image gathered more than 1,000 likes at the time of writing.
...
A spokesperson for The Atlantic told Reuters no such headline was published by the outlet.
“This is a fabricated article, and we are reporting it as fake and a trademark infringement,” the spokesperson told Reuters.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 30 June 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
This article is completely insane. It's like something out of National Review. I half expect the author to be on Tucker Carlson by the end of the week.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcaV2e6XoAE5le0?format=jpg&name=large
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Monday, 12 September 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
They should have gone with Vox. The Atlantic is home to like 9,000,000 alarmist essays about campus cancel culture
― rob, Monday, 12 September 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
https://slate.com/culture/2022/12/white-lotus-finale-hbo-sex-scene-nudity.html
― rob, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link