It's important, I think, to add that like all the best con-men the top media people believe their own bullshit.
I have a relative who is a genuine New York media elite. Can't talk to her at all. Trump supporters to her are drooling racists, that's it! No discussion. I try a Taibbian argument (you guys made this cake by selling drama and …
It's important, I think, to add that like all the best con-men the top media people believe their own bullshit.
I have a relative who is a genuine New York media elite. Can't talk to her at all. Trump supporters to her are drooling racists, that's it! No discussion. I try a Taibbian argument (you guys made this cake by selling drama and "narratives" while acting as corporate satraps). Nope! Wrong! I completely screwed the pooch when I suggested that Harvey Weinstein would never get a fair trial, and that should worry self-described liberals like her. Bam, no good, bad, scare bath! I added that he was a bona fide asshole from everything I'd heard and probably guilty of some if not all the shit he was accused of. My point was that he wouldn't get a fair trial. It was an ACLU-sticking-up-for-the-Nazis kind of thing. Didn't matter. She was like "how DARE you!" Suddenly I was a Trumpist, a sexist pig and a right wing Republican -- even though my politics have always been well to the left of hers.
Yup I have a good friend who lives in NYC (of course house in the Hamptons) and every year the list grows longer of what we cant talk about. Started with Israel, then any Republicans, then the problems of the middle and lower class.... soon it will just be the weather. So bloody sad.
It's important, I think, to add that like all the best con-men the top media people believe their own bullshit.
I have a relative who is a genuine New York media elite. Can't talk to her at all. Trump supporters to her are drooling racists, that's it! No discussion. I try a Taibbian argument (you guys made this cake by selling drama and "narratives" while acting as corporate satraps). Nope! Wrong! I completely screwed the pooch when I suggested that Harvey Weinstein would never get a fair trial, and that should worry self-described liberals like her. Bam, no good, bad, scare bath! I added that he was a bona fide asshole from everything I'd heard and probably guilty of some if not all the shit he was accused of. My point was that he wouldn't get a fair trial. It was an ACLU-sticking-up-for-the-Nazis kind of thing. Didn't matter. She was like "how DARE you!" Suddenly I was a Trumpist, a sexist pig and a right wing Republican -- even though my politics have always been well to the left of hers.
People are parroting the behaviors they see on cable news. This is what passes for discourse these days.
Yup I have a good friend who lives in NYC (of course house in the Hamptons) and every year the list grows longer of what we cant talk about. Started with Israel, then any Republicans, then the problems of the middle and lower class.... soon it will just be the weather. So bloody sad.