This is what is annoying to me. The pageantry of the cancellation display.
The pageantry is what draws people's attention.
It’s the same kayfabe that the right wing uses, and to me it implies she thinks her readers/viewers are dupes.
I wouldn't call it kayfabe. She tested the boundaries and when she hit them she made a big noise. If she'd submitted this post without anyone complaining, she'd have pushed the line farther with her next one. Like someone probing an electric fence to see if its on. She definitely still got shocked. And if she made a bigger fuss about being zapped than you think is appropriate... well... again, that's just how you get attention when you're in the media business. If you don't scream, nobody hears you.
I disagree that she has to pretend to be shocked and blindsided in order to publicize that she was fired for being right. I have no interest in journalists who play-act things for attention. I'm confident she could still do the podcast rounds and talk about how inevitable it was that she would be fired for this and how this kind of opinion is why leftists are locked out of participation in major media outlets, and the effect would be the same without the chud trappings.
The play acting is the thing I am identifying as chud trappings. She's a journalist, she knows this happens to people with good opinions on Israel, etc and so forth as I've already said. I don't know more about journalism than she does but she doesn't need to pretend to be shocked to get me to sympathize.
The play acting is the thing I am identifying as chud trappings.
There's nothing playful about it.
She really got canned for really writing a real Op-Ed that really called Israel an apartheid state.
she knows this happens to people with good opinions on Israel
Part of the outrage she expressed was in how uncontroversial her statements were. So uncontroversial that Israeli state bureaucracts were here sources.
she doesn’t need to pretend to be shocked
She has every reason to be outraged. What they did to silence her was outrageous.
Then I guess I give her too much credit, and perhaps I do know more about journalism than she does? I'm inclined to be more charitable and assume I don't, so here I am.
The pageantry is what draws people's attention.
I wouldn't call it kayfabe. She tested the boundaries and when she hit them she made a big noise. If she'd submitted this post without anyone complaining, she'd have pushed the line farther with her next one. Like someone probing an electric fence to see if its on. She definitely still got shocked. And if she made a bigger fuss about being zapped than you think is appropriate... well... again, that's just how you get attention when you're in the media business. If you don't scream, nobody hears you.
I disagree that she has to pretend to be shocked and blindsided in order to publicize that she was fired for being right. I have no interest in journalists who play-act things for attention. I'm confident she could still do the podcast rounds and talk about how inevitable it was that she would be fired for this and how this kind of opinion is why leftists are locked out of participation in major media outlets, and the effect would be the same without the chud trappings.
That's fine. You're entitled to your own media diet.
If complaining that you've been blacklisted flags you as a chud, I'm not sure what you think a chud is.
The play acting is the thing I am identifying as chud trappings. She's a journalist, she knows this happens to people with good opinions on Israel, etc and so forth as I've already said. I don't know more about journalism than she does but she doesn't need to pretend to be shocked to get me to sympathize.
There's nothing playful about it.
She really got canned for really writing a real Op-Ed that really called Israel an apartheid state.
Part of the outrage she expressed was in how uncontroversial her statements were. So uncontroversial that Israeli state bureaucracts were here sources.
She has every reason to be outraged. What they did to silence her was outrageous.
Then I guess I give her too much credit, and perhaps I do know more about journalism than she does? I'm inclined to be more charitable and assume I don't, so here I am.
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