"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Update
Jonathan Weisman took down the tweet that set off the storm this morning, I suspect because he discovered that his bigotry was too obviously on display in it. (((JonathanWeisman)))Verified account@jonathanweisman
Earlier this morning I tried to make a point about regional differences in politics between urban and rural areas. I deleted the tweets because I realize I did not adequately make my point.
7:26 AM - 31 Jul 2019
The comments, using three representatives of color and one white liberal were stupid and wrong and an expression of parochial bigotry. The commentators on this one aren't buying it. Neither am I.
Weisman isn't the biggest part of the problem, though, his stereotypical bigotry and ignorance of most of the United States is typical of alleged journalism in the United States, as I've pointed out such stuff regularly fills the op-ed and some of the reportage in the NYT and many other papers, magazines and, even more so, TV and radio mass media. I'm in favor of calling it out whoever does it. The NYC-DC-24-7-Cabloid media are the greatest vectors of such acquired mental debility if you don't count the far more influential entertainment media.
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