Discussion: Atlantic Editor Defends New Hire Who Called For Death Penalty For Abortions

Going to hire a holocaust denier as well for diversity?

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Trollery in the pursuit of likes is a vice.

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Just another “conservative” asshole. And I don’t tweet, so don’t judge me on that.

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Well, I now know what to write on their request for a subscription.

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“I don’t think that taking a person’s worst tweets, or assertions, in isolation is the best journalistic practice"

So there is some larger context that Tweet can be put into that makes it acceptable? Ok, dude. To me it sounds more like you just hired a toxic a*hole.

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“I don’t think that taking a person’s worst tweets, or assertions, in isolation is the best journalistic practice,” Goldberg said in a memo sent to the Atlantic staff, which Slate published on Tuesday. “I have read most, or much, of what he has written; some of his critics have not done the same.”

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Gad! This is beyond ‘bothsiderism.’

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I’m missing anywhere that Williamson has disavowed this opinion.
He’s not renouncing his view that we should be killed in horrific numbers.
So no, he hasn’t changed at all.
The rest is just a meaningless attempt to excuse the inexcusable.
I’ll pass.

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According to Williamson my spouses missed period ought to get her the gas chamber.

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Shame on the editor. There have got to be other conservatives that know how to write. Why hire such an ugly one?

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short answer/opinion: I think that The Atlantic is looking for either a Brooks or Nichols type, who might have a bit of an edge (in Williamson’s case, he has way too much) in their work.

However, I think Goldberg is about to find out that #metoo is still here and I don’t think that he (or The Atlantic) is going to like whats coming next.

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If a large portion of the country’s inhabitants believed, wrongly, and contrary to all scientific facts and observation that the sun revolves around the earth, are magazine and newspaper publishers obligated to publish the rhetoric of anti-Coperican, anti-heliocentric theory simply to achieve “diversity of opinion”?

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I’m intrigued by the way a small number of people want to arrogate to themselves the decision of whether I should be hired or not hired at a place they happen not to work at or otherwise have decision-making responsibility for without looking at the broad range of things I’ve said and done and focusing simply on a few instances of cannibalism from years ago. The fact that I’ve eaten people on occasion does not and should not define me as a person. But this kind of thinking is sadly typical on the left.

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I want Goldberg to hire a writer that says that believes the treatment of Palestinians by Israel is at best Apartheid and most likely ethnic cleansing, you know just to hear the other side.

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How smug you are in your belief that reality is not a social construct.

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It’s a catalog with very few items. Sometimes bright yellow is the only available color.

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Not all of his pieces called for millions of women in the U.S. to be put to death by hanging, so just back off my boy.

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As Trump would say, “Take him out on a stretcher!!”

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Is “conservative” (i.e. sociopathic huckster) Williamson referring to induced or spontaneous abortions? Most unborn children, otherwise known as fertilized eggs, spontaneously abort within the first few weeks of fertilization, all in accordance with his sky-god’s plan.

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