This substack is, unfortunately, another demonstration of intellectually lazy socio-political commentary. To wit, Ms. Barr has a long history of racist comments and diatribes. If there were just one, or two, or three perhaps your line of argument would hold water. However, her tweet about Jarret was just one of the latest. Please open your eyes, gents. Need to look at patterns of activity over time. Same applies to so many demonstrably nefarious folks being promoted as 'paragons of free speech' . Frankly, it's tiring. And it invites more irrational ponderings and speculations (like the drivel Steve P tapped out in this comment thread). And this reminds of Mr. Loury's pointing to sentiments that are, allegedly, widespread caters to the problematic criterion of social proof - a criterion more problematic now then ever, in this age of social media. Ideas, simply by dint of their being publicized, does not make them good ideas. To the contrary, we have more nonsense running hand in hand with sensible ideas then ever before. And this should remind us that, while one of the best things about the Web is that ANYBODY can contribute, one of the worse things about the web is, indeed, that ANYBODY can contribute.
This substack is, unfortunately, another demonstration of intellectually lazy socio-political commentary. To wit, Ms. Barr has a long history of racist comments and diatribes. If there were just one, or two, or three perhaps your line of argument would hold water. However, her tweet about Jarret was just one of the latest. Please open your eyes, gents. Need to look at patterns of activity over time. Same applies to so many demonstrably nefarious folks being promoted as 'paragons of free speech' . Frankly, it's tiring. And it invites more irrational ponderings and speculations (like the drivel Steve P tapped out in this comment thread). And this reminds of Mr. Loury's pointing to sentiments that are, allegedly, widespread caters to the problematic criterion of social proof - a criterion more problematic now then ever, in this age of social media. Ideas, simply by dint of their being publicized, does not make them good ideas. To the contrary, we have more nonsense running hand in hand with sensible ideas then ever before. And this should remind us that, while one of the best things about the Web is that ANYBODY can contribute, one of the worse things about the web is, indeed, that ANYBODY can contribute.