If this is a friend, please slap them with a dead trout until they finally get it:

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1080658160904536064

https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1080667898811699200

https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1080691282647941120

https://twitter.com/nanelk/status/1080655319771086848

Sadly there's much, much more where this came from...

At least now we're seeing which pundits actually give a shit about sexism and which pundits only care about it when a so-called "establishment Dem" gets accused.

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1073274067820691459

https://twitter.com/Unexplained/status/944348891008335874

You'd think this was a satire off or youtube, but it's 100% legit:


https://twitter.com/athleteswag/status/1070479836840411136

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat jumped the not-so-great white shark Wednesday when he published a column explicitly arguing that White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs) are just better leaders than their “more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors,” and reaped blistering criticism in the process.

The column, pegged to nostalgia at the passing of former President George H.W. Bush, is entitled “Why We Miss the WASPs” and sub-headlined “Their more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.”

The 1800 words which follow are exactly the painful exercise in white-supremacy-convincing-itself-it’s-classism that you would expect it to be. But in one particularly audacious passage, Douthat even gives the white elite credit for the success of Jews, and for Barack Obama:

The establishment had always been somewhat permeable to arrivistes, Jews and Catholics imitated WASP habits in the 1940s and 1950s, and in our era their admirable influence is still felt in figures as different as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ross-douthat-roasted-for-claiming-white-people-are-better-leaders/


Bonus: You'll recognize a longtime DUer in the cited tweets!

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1068233342070403072

It's funny because the only reason why WL got so big was because of constant fawning coverage from the Guardian in the early days...

https://twitter.com/questlove/status/1068147621469057024

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/payless-opened-a-fake-luxury-store-palessi-to-see-how-much-people-would-pay-for-20-shoes/

https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1064892917733576707

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1064189243629686785

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1063118934789050368


So what's the recourse here? Would they be okay legally if they served from the front lawn of a member's home?

Not long ago, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was considered a lionhearted champion of civil liberties and government transparency.

In 2007, he helped expose human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay. In 2009, Amnesty International gave Assange one of its Media Awards for exposing a police massacre in Kenya.

In 2010, he was Time magazine readers’ choice for Person of the Year. In 2011, he won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. An article in Forbes in 2012 likened him to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and called his detractors “cowards.” In 2013, he won the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts.

In fact, before Assange was known for his romance with the Kremlin, and his shady contacts with scurvy Trumpites like Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr., he was a punk idol, a hacker god. For years, he seemed like an opener of governments who could disinfect the Earth with the sunlight of his tech virtuosity and his eccentric radiance.

It’s possible that the Assange still captivates the imagination of enough romantic anarchists that he’ll slip the knot of public condemnation once again.

But, like many online high-fliers of the aughts, Assange lacked a moral imagination equal to his skills as a technologist. Instead he soared along — a Byronic heartthrob to budding anarchists — on that era’s mandate: Do it for the lulz.

Over the past decade, the lulz — the laughs — have curdled.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-assange-stone-20181103-story.html


Yes, I'm taking my victory lap here... I think I'll be taking another one when Greenwald meets his demise, which could be in the near future.