Real-world whistleblowing vs Malcolm Gladwell's bizarre theory of whistleblowing

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@fuzzyfungus

Even if one were inclined to be more charitable than I; there isn’t anything in his publication history that suggests the slightest knowledge of what he is attempting to talk about here(which, if one were feeling charitable, might explain why he gets basic matters of historical fact utterly wrong).

Malcolm Gladwell is like partying too much, your own fiction, and overbearing political righteousness: something to fall in love with during your first year or two in college and then grow out of as you realize the world is more complicated than that.

@tinman

Gladwell has been a long-term apologist for the right – Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, etc:

Don’t forget broken-windows policing.