But you can stop reading them.The New York Times (the Times or NYT) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2022 to comprise 740,000 paid print subscribers, and 8.6 million paid digital subscribers. And truthfully, you can't count on these shitty people to suddenly decide to stop being shitty.
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They don't know how to approach or discuss real problems, because they refuse to allow themselves to be exposed to anything other than the caricature of "leftism" as an ideology for/by whiny snowflakes who hate the truth. These are rich, white, privileged bozos whose engagement with these ideas only extends as far as they'll allow their social media feeds to go. It'd be boring as fuck, but it'd be more befitting of an ivy league alum than surfing white nationalist waves for several hundred words. In place of his column about Stephen Miller, we could have got a real discussion or viewpoint on past/current immigration policy.
( Joe Biden has been giving out more creepy hugs than a banned mall Santa.) If Stephens and Weiss stopped framing discussions about "cancel culture" in reference to their latest social media dustup, they might find a worthwhile angle. It isn't that centrists and liberals are untouchable. Related: We Doublechecked And These Trump Stories Aren't Fake News (We should note that The Times still has actual journalists, who appear to be kept safely away from the porta-potty that is the Opinion section.) At his previous job at The Wall Street Journal, he referred to climate change as everything from a "mass hysteria phenomenon" for which "much of the science has been discredited" to an "imaginary enemy" conjured by the left's "totalitarian impulse." (Which was actually an improvement on his other WSJ subjects, like "the disease of the Arab mind.") Then there's his eugenics-adjacent column from a few weeks back in which he wrote about how Ashkenazi Jews have superior intelligence compared to the rest of the human race - a piece which was edited post-publication to remove all references to a study by a racist whose research was notably discredited by, um, The New York Times. Related: 5 'Ugh' Trump Stories The News Totally Forgot AboutĪs for Bret Stephens, where you even begin? We could mention how one of his first columns for the NYT was a high-spirited attack on the science of climate change. This despite the fact that they cumulatively have millions of dollars, countless fans and subscribers, and of course, newspaper columnists writing glossy op-eds about how they're persecuted. It's also how we got a column by Bari Weiss which popularized the term "Intellectual Dark Web" for an obnoxious group of commentators (such as Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Joe Rogan) who according to her are hated for speaking truth to power and have been "locked out" of the conservation. That's how we got a column by Ross Douthat advocating that Stephen Miller - the Nosferatu-faced white nationalist who masterminded the travel ban, the immigrant family separation policy, and our go-home-we're-full approach to refugees - deserves his seat at the policy table because his explicit hatred of brown people makes him the shot in the arm that the system needs.
The only problem is that these writers responded by treating this call to "balance" as a call to write whatever deranged, trigger-the-libs, contrarian word-diarrhea they could muster.
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