Discussion: Controversial George Will Column On Sexual Assault Had All Male Editors

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The Washington Post editors must have no ability to question themselves. No wonder they are in that handbasket with George Will.

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Hiatt’s hacks at work promoting misogyny

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“These days a lot of people are going to read into something what they want to read into it.”

I’m not buying that BS…

Maybe the writer sucks and you should fire him? Isn’t a writer’s job to communicate?

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What surprises me is not what they think but what they say (or don’t). How in this day and age can they be so tone deaf? And how can they imagine that with such a topic the gender of the editors would be irrelevant (“if that is important to you”)?

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Earth to the WaPo: Involving women in a story that is deeply about women is expected, down here in the real world.

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So WaPo is basically saying that if anyone was offended, it was all in their heads. It must be everyone else’s fault that George sounds like a tone-deaf misogynist.

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You were expecting that it was edited by even one woman?

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“On that day, there were three males, if that is important to you,” Alan Shearer, CEO and editorial director of Washington Post News Media Services,"

Even if it was not important to me, the article had three male editors.
This guy is an editorial director? This explains a lot.

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Exactly how I took it.

“Those addled Libs will find fault because they’re dumbasses.”

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“These days a lot of people are going to read into something what they want to read into it.” What a crock of bull. If he was really a good writer we wouldn’t be guessing or have to read into it. Although he did pretty clearly spell out “I am an irrelevant, aging white male, misogynist and bully.”

Like Dr.Seuss told Marvin K. Mooney, the time has come, the time is now George Will you must go, George will you must go now.

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“These days a lot of people are going to read into something what they want to read into it.”

Clueless doesn’t even begin to describe this lower animal.

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Ladies shouldn’t have to worry their pretty little heads with things like editing. Who taught them how to read, anyway? (snark off)

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time for the other 475 newspapers to follow the Post Dispatch’s lead and dump
Mr. Will.

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“If that is important you” he says petulantly, subtly indicating that he didn’t think it relevant then, and probably doesn’t now, but knows he can’t say that at this juncture.

“Hey, we’re bunch of upper class white guys who are used to running the world. If you’re offended by our clueless assumption of cultural dominance, and our inability to put ourselves in the shoes of anyone not like us well, I guess I’m sorry. But I’m still in charge, so there!”

“Wait, you still want an explanation? Mommy, make it stop!”

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The Post-Dispatch is a good start. Let’s see where we go from here. If he keeps “defending” himself (translation, digging the hole deeper), we may see a slow drip-drip-drip as his career circles the drain.

George Will may be one of the least generous human beings on earth. He has nothing to offer most of us besides the back of his hand.

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Shearer said Thursday that the editorial team had discussed the piece’s content at length with Will before it was published

‘Do you think it is enough to piss off the hippies?’

‘Only the hairy ones…the chicks’

[Laughter]

‘Might have to make it stronger. Hippies aren’t the most perceptive bunch around.’

[Chuckles]

‘I don’t know, a lot of them are finally starting to show signs of getting a clue…but legal pot is going to put a stop to that.’

[Laughter]

‘All right, let’s wrap this up and get to the bar. I have some excess brain cells of my own I’d like to drown. We are agreed that George needs to make it stronger then. We can go with that bit you came up with about how the so-called rape victims are practically worshipped on campus.’

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He put this trend down to increased political correctness on college campuses, which, he said, was proving that when universities “make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.”

“These days a lot of people are going to read into something what they want to read into it.”

Sorry, but I don’t need to “read something into” that piece of crap statement. That shit stands on its own.

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Seems to me that Georgie communicated exactly what he wanted to say.

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I think the word is “patronizing”.

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