It’s simple, Steve, they didn’t want your face on the cover. Not even as a cartoon.
Take it to the streets Bannon.
People like Bannon need to be pushed back to using short-wave radio to get their message out. There’s no excuse for giving them a platform.
It was a mistake to invite Bannon. I’m glad that the New Yorker corrected the mistake.
Bannon gets to play the victim card for a bit but that is preferable to the trustwashing that the original event would have provided him.
Lesson here: live by the howling online mob, die by the howling online mob.
I say let him talk so we are reminded about how fascism is no longer in the margins.
Would he have been paid by the “New Yorker” for this gig or would he appear for free ?
Boo fuckingHoo… what a snowflake
He can go to the park, stand on a milk carton, and spout hateful nonsense all he likes. But if respected companies and organizations give him “air time,” they’re legitimizing his views.
Without FoxNews, we probably wouldn’t be on the brink of fascism today.
“howling online mob”
Hey, Steve. Try getting all of your and Trump’s “howling online mob” to buy subscriptions to The New Yorker so they can then cancel them in protest.
Also, have them buy pairs of $189 Nike shoes and burn those in protest against their Kaepernick ad campaign.
That’ll teach 'em!
Be careful, libtards! If Bannon doesn’t get what he wants he’s going to hold his breathe and take a shower until he turns clean!
Whatever you think of the invitation itself, the way it was withdrawn was a blazing but not unsurprising act of cowardice.
How do you complain about FoxNews being an echo chamber when you won’t open the door to a leader of the mob who wants to walk into a Colosseum full of Romans with their thumbs down? Remnick is not a happy talk guy, and some New Yorker readers (and I am one) might need to hear what the people whom they don’t respect, but were able to elect this disastrous government, think and respond to. Not everyone thinks like Rachel Maddow, even if they should.
At least now Bannon is free to devote more time to making Hungary safe for fascism again.
One New Yorker article that has always stayed with me is a piece years ago on Holocaust deniers. The article was critical of the trend at the time to “hear them out,” even though their views may be reprehensible. The point was not just that this approach gives legitimacy to such people, but that the underlying assumption that there are “two sides” to this (and every) story betrays a kind of rationalistic fantasy.
Sometimes there are not two sides to an issue: if one person says that yesterday happened and I deny it, I am not holding a legitimate—though controversial and false—viewpoint. No, I am spouting nonsense and my “claim” that yesterday did not take place should simply be mocked and dismissed. “Debating” this or the claims of Holocaust deniers is irrational and incoherent, not open-minded.
It is the same with Bannonism. I suspect that something like this same rationalistic fantasy lay under David Remnick’s decision to invite him to the festival. (I suspect there was a good deal of arrogance as well—that he imagined he would succeed where others had failed in exposing Bannon for what he is.) Remnick would do well to take to heart the wisdom inherent in his own publication.
I think anyone who’s curious about what Bannon thinks can find out readily enough in a way that doesn’t confer legitimacy on him. These people were once relegated to the shadowy underground because their views are odious. Tell me what you think: Is it or is it not agreed by ethical people that one race should not dominate the others? Is that a thing we agree on, or do we need to hear the arguments of people who think otherwise? I don’t fucking think so, actually, and if that makes me incurious so be it.
Because Steve Bannon, when he was building up his reputation by running Breitbart, would have invited someone from Black Lives Matter…or the Obama Administration…or Planned Parenthood…to one of his Media Events…and given them a fair hearing and a fair interview.
Fuck Steve Bannon. Kudos to the New Yorker writer who asked for people to communicate their disagreement with giving this buffoon oxygen to revive his miserable self promoting career after the Mercers got him canned.
Inviting Bannon wasn’t even the most disgusting part of this fiasco. The worst part is that Remnick thought he could charge $59 for tickets to hear this POS speak, which means I should be able to get at least $120 a pop at The New Yorker Festival so people can hear my impression of Whitney Houston singing “I Will Always Love You”.
I responded to the New Yorker’s attempt to legitimize that Nazi by cancelling my subscription.
You do not say Please and Thank You and turn the other cheek when the Nazis are on the march
You shut them down.