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>presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era... Nothing could be further from the truth

They seem fairly objective to me. Can you suggest any other news sources that are more objective? Re Sarah Jeong - ok they have a columnist who dislikes Trump but that's hardly a very rare viewpoint in the US these days.




>. Can you suggest any other news sources that are more objective?

WSJ, FT, BBC, Politico

>Re Sarah Jeong - ok they have a columnist who dislikes Trump but that's hardly a very rare viewpoint in the US these days.

Hating white people is not the same thing as disliking Trump. Criticizing Trump is okay, being racist is not.


Jeong's tweets were very, very obviously jokes. To suggest it's evidence of "hating white people" is just parroting manufactured outrage.

In any case. WSJ isn't more objective that NYT. It's just further to the right, which is why it appears objective to someone on the right.


>Jeong's tweets were very, very obviously jokes.

No, they were not. Maybe replacing 'white' with other races will help you to gain some perspective: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjnUykIUUAAifwH.jpg:large


Have you written somewhere about why you believe that context is not a relevant aspect of communication?

(That is, putting the tweets into a different context doesn't demonstrate anything about what was meant when they were twote.)


>Sarah Jeong - ok they have a columnist who dislikes Trump

Wait what? She's an avowed racist with a 5 year trail of comments to prove it, she doesn't merely "dislike" Trump. The fact that NY Times actively sought her and threw their support behind her is despicable. I cancelled my digital subscription because of that alone.


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Would you be so kind to point me the error of my ways?


https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1025049961472253957

Not the statement an "avowed racist" makes.


That's exactly what every racist's apology looks like, including Roseanne Barr. Also the above is utter bullshit. She posted a link to one tweet where she was responding to someone disregarding hundreds upon hundreds of racists tweets that weren't direct responses to anyone. You realize this was going on for about 5 years?


I refer you back to the initial reply.

Or has Jeong started ramblin' about the Ambien?

https://www.fastcompany.com/40578985/the-spectacular-emptine...




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