NYT has a long, sordid history of allowing privileged people, notably straight white males like Klein, to speak on behalf of minority communities that are not allowed to speak in their own voice. We're seeing this arrogance — and, frankly, cruelty — on display all over again in how NYT deals with trans people.'
Klein is doing what NY Times does and has long done, professing all the while to be a "liberal" outlet.
#EzraKlein #CharlieKirk #centrism #BothSidesism #NewYorkTimes
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My perspective:
Ezra Klein is the New York Times in a nutshell. He embodies what NYT has long been, a force arrayed the progressive wing of the Democratic party while the most outré and dangerous fascist developments of the Republican party are normalized by NYT.
#EzraKlein #CharlieKirk #centrism #BothSidesism #NewYorkTimes
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"And I cannot get over the degree to which Klein's response is emblematic of the politically-empowered white liberal response to this age of autocratic fascist abuse and violence, in his predictable rightward instinct and in his seemingly impenetrable assumption that, even though he admits he has no idea what the solution to our present situation might be, he is still just the person to deliver a solution."
#EzraKlein #CharlieKirk #centrism #BothSidesism #NewYorkTimes
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Noting that Ezra Klein has a big voice as someone with a podcast hosted by New York Times, A.R. Moxon writes,
"I find myself almost entirely in opposition to Klein , because I can't get over the degree to which his approach is designed not to defeat the human spirit of supremacy that drives all these horrors, but to sink comfortably into it and join with it."
#EzraKlein #CharlieKirk #centrism #BothSidesism #NewYorkTimes
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@narrativewatch
It is correct to favour #Ukraine in the description of events, because we are all of us subject to the UN's Article 2(4) prohibiting force against the sovereignty of every nation. Not the main point, but NATO isn't a combatant in this invasion by Russia.
That's not #MediaBias, it's to prevent #bothsidesism
"and affirming the dignity and equality of LGBT people and of women as well as racial justice will inevitably become more polarising. But that cannot mean silence, for Christ also said: 'I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink’ (Matt 25: 42)."
"Unity is a mark of the Church ('that they may all be one,' Jn 17:21), but it cannot be preserved at the expense of truth and justice. Christ warned that his message would also bring division (Mt 10:34–36).
"As Christian nationalism spreads under the guise of defending 'Christian values' and identity, speaking truth, defending the vulnerable—the unborn, the disabled, the elderly, the poor, the foreigner—"(continued in /4)
"It can imply that 'both sides' of the controversy enjoy the same level of stability, security, and agency when, in reality, the effects are not symmetrical. Inaction or silence causes very concrete harm on one side: spiritual and physical alienation from the Church and from loved ones, and in too many cases, despair that can lead to death. These realities cannot be brushed away in the name of unity."
"[Pope] Leo further noted that LGBTQ+ questions are polarising, as the Synod revealed. While true, it is troubling when people themselves are framed as 'a problem.' Most LGBTQ+ Catholics seek nothing more than to live ordinary lives of Christian discipleship—no more and no less.
What the language of 'polarisation' often fails to account for is the imbalance of power.
~ Gael Pardoen
"As the Trump administration wages the broadest attack on civil rights in a century, and the shared societal values of multiculturalism and tolerance recede, using Kirk’s knack for vigorous argument to excuse the re-emergence of unabashed bigotry in mainstream politics feels both frightening and perilous."
"But for those who were directly targeted by Kirk’s rhetoric, this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued. Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people and his racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy."
"In some parts of polite society, it now holds that if many of Kirk’s views were repugnant, his willingness to calmly argue about them and his insistence that people hash out their disagreements through discourse at a time of such division made him a free-speech advocate, and an exemplar of how we should engage politically across difference."
~ Nikole Hannah-Jones
#CharlieKirk #Black #LGBTQ #immigrants #BothSidesism
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html
"Donald Trump can sludge forward on his wrinkled, bloated cankles due to this country’s affirmative action for conservative white men. Everything is 'both sides' and 'fair and balanced' until Republicans do it."
"Imagine the headlines if President Joe Biden attempted to cover up a large, permanent bruise on his right hand with garish makeup, had swollen ankles, and consistently fell asleep on live television?"
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #health #media #BothSidesism
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-isnt-donald-trumps-declining
#bothsidesism needs to die.
Mike Brock has no more time for the elite media mavens and their centrist both-sides BS:
"Eight months ago, it was 'derangement' to predict exactly what’s happening now. Today, it’s 'hyperbole' to notice it’s happening. Tomorrow, it will be illegal to mention it happened."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #centrism #BothSidesism #media #MediaFail
"'not to center the fact that the people telling the lies are liars, but rather to center the lie; to adopt it as the framing for their reporting.' …
The media is privileging the lie that the takeover is intended to fight crime, when common sense and a mountain of evidence make it abundantly clear that it is not."
#Trump #WashintonDC #media #centrism #BothSidesism #normalization #sanewashing #fascism #crime #Epstein
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"There is a name for the phenomenon by which the media focuses on the false pretext instead of the real motives.
Back in 2008, political strategist and media critic Jamison Foser introduced the phrase 'privileging the lie,' which (as he wrote more recently) describes 'the news media’s tendency to center lies in its coverage of politics –'" (continued in /5)
#Trump #WashintonDC #media #centrism #BothSidesism #normalization #sanewashing #fascism #crime #Epstein
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"Journalists should instead be aggressively reporting on Trump’s real motives, which include distracting from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, perpetuating racism, and normalizing the military takeover of an American city.
And yet the overwhelming majority of the media coverage of this debacle has focused on the issue of crime."
#Trump #WashintonDC #media #centrism #BothSidesism #normalization #sanewashing #fascism #crime #Epstein
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