Brilliant. I think it was Matthew Yglesias, no wild-eyed lefty by any stretch, who said on twitter that if we tried to reintroduce the phone book today, people would completely lose their shit and call it doxing.
This donor brouhaha is, of course, exactly of a piece with people wanting to say the most blatantly racist shit while still being allowed to indignantly protest when you call them racist. If you’re embarrassed about giving Trump $2500, then you shouldn’t have sent him money. Public records, motherfuckers, public records.
Publishing the names of Trump campaign donors is completely beyond the pale because Americans have absolutely no right whatsoever to know who is supporting Donald Trump.
However, we at the New York Times had no choice but to publish the names and addresses of every Clinton donor, friend, acquaintance, neighbor, and employee. If we had not done so, then the right of the American people to send death threats and engage in boycotts would have been seriously abridged.
Ah, shades of, uh, What's-his-name, that guy who was president, probably, after Clinton. I don't know anyone who supported him, it turns out, they probably just told me that to be funny, I am assured in a smug "Man, Normies" kind of tone.
Anyway, they should cheer up. Even The Liberal Willie Geist is taking up for their right not to be "harassed", which I think is defined as "having to deal with free speech as a result of people finding out about their actions". Someone might even tweet at them to "be quiet"! This is all yet another shitpile of Whataboutism, where we once again pretend that there is absolute symmetry in extremism on the right and the left, as evidenced by that guy who shot Steve Scalise and the large and growing body count of white supremacy. It's all the same, and we should all deplore extremism wherever we find it.
I'm pretty sure yesterday I caught Morning Joe, yes, okay, I admit it, I hatewatch at times, asking if ecoterrorism, that movement with a massive bodycount, oh wait, I'm thinking about global warming, counts as domestic terrorism should they ever actually kill someone. Dude, if you gotta go back to 1980s Earth First, you are an idiot.
And as for Trump demanding people "respect law enforcement", he could, you know, actually fucking pay the five hundred K his campaign owes El Paso law enforcement. He won't, but he could.
It's open and shut: If the owner of local business X is sending money to a racist, and I don't want money sent to a racist, then I need to know the name of local business X so I can stop shopping there and thereby laundering my money to the racist. It's not terrorism unless I head over to X with a baseball bat. It's the free market. And if I remember my Keurig History correctly, and my Nike History, and my... all of history... conservatives LOVE a boycott for political reasons.
(Fun: google "conservative boycott list" and you get more than 5 million results.)
Brilliant. I think it was Matthew Yglesias, no wild-eyed lefty by any stretch, who said on twitter that if we tried to reintroduce the phone book today, people would completely lose their shit and call it doxing.
This donor brouhaha is, of course, exactly of a piece with people wanting to say the most blatantly racist shit while still being allowed to indignantly protest when you call them racist. If you’re embarrassed about giving Trump $2500, then you shouldn’t have sent him money. Public records, motherfuckers, public records.
Publishing the names of Trump campaign donors is completely beyond the pale because Americans have absolutely no right whatsoever to know who is supporting Donald Trump.
However, we at the New York Times had no choice but to publish the names and addresses of every Clinton donor, friend, acquaintance, neighbor, and employee. If we had not done so, then the right of the American people to send death threats and engage in boycotts would have been seriously abridged.
Ah, shades of, uh, What's-his-name, that guy who was president, probably, after Clinton. I don't know anyone who supported him, it turns out, they probably just told me that to be funny, I am assured in a smug "Man, Normies" kind of tone.
Anyway, they should cheer up. Even The Liberal Willie Geist is taking up for their right not to be "harassed", which I think is defined as "having to deal with free speech as a result of people finding out about their actions". Someone might even tweet at them to "be quiet"! This is all yet another shitpile of Whataboutism, where we once again pretend that there is absolute symmetry in extremism on the right and the left, as evidenced by that guy who shot Steve Scalise and the large and growing body count of white supremacy. It's all the same, and we should all deplore extremism wherever we find it.
I'm pretty sure yesterday I caught Morning Joe, yes, okay, I admit it, I hatewatch at times, asking if ecoterrorism, that movement with a massive bodycount, oh wait, I'm thinking about global warming, counts as domestic terrorism should they ever actually kill someone. Dude, if you gotta go back to 1980s Earth First, you are an idiot.
And as for Trump demanding people "respect law enforcement", he could, you know, actually fucking pay the five hundred K his campaign owes El Paso law enforcement. He won't, but he could.
It's that last sentence in parentheses that makes this art. Up next: David Brooks on the future rebirth of Non-What's-His-Name Republicanism.
In case any of you missed Joy Reid v. Maggie Haberman.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1158906061887352832
It's open and shut: If the owner of local business X is sending money to a racist, and I don't want money sent to a racist, then I need to know the name of local business X so I can stop shopping there and thereby laundering my money to the racist. It's not terrorism unless I head over to X with a baseball bat. It's the free market. And if I remember my Keurig History correctly, and my Nike History, and my... all of history... conservatives LOVE a boycott for political reasons.
(Fun: google "conservative boycott list" and you get more than 5 million results.)
Yes, no one would should be held accountable for his actions.