Felix, Matt and Virgil were not present and shouldn't get dragged down with them on the matter.
Not to say they never have bad takes or are never wrong on anything, but at minimum they weren't dumb enough to defend cops/criticize ACAB and BLM at the peak of the Floyd protests.
I'm just defending the Good Bois honor and virtue.
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Yeah that is one of their worst episodes and I didn’t even finish it. Plus tabibi or whatever is a fucking lib
taibbi seems to be on a path of of glen greenwald, idk if anyone else sees this but he is increasingly becoming a freeze peach warrior and defending some weird shit in doing so. I appreciate a lot of his older work, but within the last year or so I can't honestly say the same thing for that work.
I say this as someone who likes Chomsky but I think Glenn and Taibbi is what happens when post-Friedman libertarians interact with Chomsky and the left.
Or maybe it’s a gen x thing. That Voltaire misquote is one of the worst things ever popularized.
I think that is a pretty decent way to put it, actually
I think folks like Glenn and Matt know don’t know how to pick causes to champion. I don’t give a fuck about Parler or Ron Paul getting banned. Why not write about facebook banning union or protest organizers?
Free speech ideological consistency necessitates defending all of it and it feels like his coverage of left vs right censorship issues at the moment is in line with their present cultural scale of impact. Freedom of speech is the thing that is being defended (not the substance of the speech obvs) so it makes sense as a journalist to follow that where it is most relevant to the current moment. There really has been a very strange almost complete reversal of historical attitudes between the right and left with regards to censorship so it’s a really weird thing to wade through for either side.