Yes, they’re nuts. It’s a cult.
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I have no problem with businesses hiring people for a ‘diversity of opinion’. However, when you advocate the death penalty for a woman that is actually FOLLOWING THE DAMN LAW just because you don’t agree with said law, you have gone too damn far.
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Goldberg had previously responded to the backlash over Williams’ hiring by defending his decision, saying that “I don’t think that taking a person’s worst tweets, or assertions, in isolation is the best journalistic practice.”
Well, now you have the chance to put your theory to practice by becoming your own publisher and employer.
Fuckhead.
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It’s legal to wear a ball cap in a fine dining establishment that requires reservations two weeks in advance and serves $100 entrees. Nevertheless I think summary execution is an appropriate remedy.
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I guess the Atlantic is gonna have to find another way to generate the dozen or so clicks this guy’s articles would be worth.
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We hired this guy not really believing him when he said that we should hang a bunch of our coworkers and like a third of our subscribers, but it turns out he really meant it! Oops! Who could have known?
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The part where he angrily asks her if she thinks his job defines him is one of the best expressions of offended dignity I’ve seen in a film. Haven’t seen him in much lately but he was always a really solid, believable actor.
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I think public shaming would do…
What a shameful stain this is on The Atlantic. Williamson’s views were more than well known, they were published! Repeatedly!
Williamson should have never been hired and Goldberg should be forced to resign for his hand in this sad affair.
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Naw, just forced to do 100 hours of community service in a homeless shelter kitchen. Actually, you can have that for anyone that eats in a restaurant that serves $100 entrees.
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Hey he’s contrarian and has a beard. its like having Andrew Sullivan back!
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Yeah he was just great in that and you’re right about that scene - it was really so good. I loved her bubby. I’m so jealous - wish I had had a bubby.
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Love that “gifted writer” bs. “Gifted Writers” tend to have some kind of regulator or governour that prevents them from writing just whatever hateful, disgusting, reprehensible troglodyte words they want. Just as most people also have some sort of control mechanism on what they say and what actions they take. Problems arise when that mechanism is turned off, or never in place to begin with.
That isn’t being gifted, it’s being, in this instance, violently antisocial and misogynistic, and ignorant.
That Goldberg writes such niceties about Williamson says as much about the hiring and firing as it does about Goldberg. And it isn’t a pretty thing that is revealed.
I’m really tired of people giving creeps like him, like Coulter, and Ingraham and ALL the rest a platform. They really shouldn’t have one that they don’t make themselves. They shouldn’t be on CSPAN or The News Hour or in the NYT or the Podunk Press for that matter. If they want to be heard, build your own radio transmitter or something.
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“But I have come to the conclusion that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talents, and so we are parting ways.”
And that’s why Editor-in-Chief Goldberg makes the big bucks. Being able to reach those difficult assessments and conclusions about a person’s unique talents and how those fit within the mission of the publication.
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I believe there was a request for smiting earlier.
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When is it enough due diligence? While I admit that hiring a different POV into a mag / journal with many is not always a bad thing, this was too much. Now before everyone attacks me ( doubt it) it was actually a good thing that they hired and then fired in public. That shows much more willingness that any RW media and fire on just cause.
TBS - where is Bret Stevens after he said - oh man, it was just a tweet. Perhaps his job needs to be reviewed because he certainly bought the tweet lie.
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So who else is going to be exiled from the Atlantic’s utopian no-party, no-clique staff? Is manslaughter a step too far? virulent racism or antisemitism? What about, say, socialism?
Is it me or does it seem to be universal mathematical axiom that
bald + face vagina = douchenozzle
?
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Nice vetting, Atlantic. When the tweet first came up, did anyone even bother to ask him if he had publicly expressed similarly vile thoughts elsewhere? Or did you merely accept his assurance that the tweet “doesn’t represent who I am” (or whatever it is people say when they express exactly who they are, and then try to backtrack in the face of public condemnation)?
Lesson: Where there’s extremist smoke, there’s extremist fire.
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