Yes it is clear that the NY Times is an unassailable, pure, undeniably rare gem in our firmament, a beacon of truth too pure for souls like us, and what I said about the importance of some donor getting his kid off the waitlist at Dartmouth is far more important than the rise of fascism in the GOP, why yes, I agree with that 100%.
Why, if Chad Collingsworth III can’t rush DKE like his father and his grandfather just because his B- average at Choate isn’t up to snuff and his place is taken by, horrors, a public school student, can any of us truly be free? If Bret Stephens takes the mildest criticism, clearly that’s the same as living in Germany in 1943.
Anyway, there’s a diner in Ohio somewhere filled with people who need to get their story out in a way that is totally honest and not manipulated at all by some NY Times reporter fulfilling a prewritten narrative. Good thing they’re taking a breather from writing deep analysis of Hillary Clinton’s laugh. The world can only stand so many insights from the NY Times.
Is this some recursive Poe’s Law thing going on? Or are you mistakenly thinking that the NYT is left wing rather than the US equivalent of British One Nation Conservatism?
I’m starting to wonder less about what they’re on about and more about what they’re on.
I’m not a librarian but I am librarian adjacent, being IT Staff in a large library. (Always happy to see @MadLibrarian posting, of course!) I’m on enough lists to see attacks at board meetings around the US. Book Riot is a particularly good source for this news (see the linked story, then continue into the rabbit hole list of links to other attacks on books in the list at the bottom of the article.)
Tbf, this would work even if he had never written anything. The actual Nazi book burnings used firemen to make sure “everyone” was “safe” at their hatefest. Burning down synagogues was also often done in conjunction with the local fire department
Book burning seems to be the in-thing across the political spectrum:
An Ottawa student wrote in her school paper that Golding’s 1954 novel about white boys stranded on an island turning savage and killing their own, did not reflect what she as “a Black, Jewish, feminist and social justice activist” wished to read.
“I do not need to learn about … how these boys cannot act in a civilized manner to protect one another without desiring power, hierarchy and having a thirst for blood.”
No both sides do not want to burn books. One said wants to burn books and told us that they want to burn books. Demanding greater literary inclusivity isn’t the same thing as banning books that teach you that white straight cisgendered men are the only ones with value.
Hard to ignore the clamoring for book burning in my state. I don’t read the nyt, but I have a bingo if anyone wants to suggest that it’s run by lizard people.
The thing is, there is absolutely reasons to criticize the NYT… hell, we have a whole thread for that! But to say that they’re delusional about the rise in authoritarianism is just wrong.
