The problem is not talking to Hasan Piker or influencers like him. Such conversations are part of democratic dialogue. The problem is figuring out how to constructively engage a new media landscape dominated by smashmouth populists of all political persuasions who talk about everything but are experts in nothing, and whose incentives run toward incendiary virality rather than accuracy.
How do reporters and others have these conversations in ways that make their audiences more informed, rather than less? I have some ideas.
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“Can a man become a woman” is such a rage bait bullshit question. It has no bearing on policy. In a free country an adult can become whatever they want if they don’t harm others. The DHS Secretary has an entirely new face & the president wears more makeup than most drag queens.
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I wrote about the recent spate of anti-Zionist violence against American Jews and how such assaults just make Zionism's argument for it. "The unwitting agents of Zionism throughout history have been those unwilling to tolerate Jews in their own countries."
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If a politician's goal is to avoid regional escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, it would have helped to have said something about Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets into Israel this year, killing a soccer field of kids and depopulating 100,000 civilians from the north.
Ignoring all this and then parachuting in to complain about Israel responding by blowing up Hezbollah's pager network is not a serious response to the situation, will not persuade skeptics, and will not serve the cause of deescalation.
Hillary Clinton ends her DNC speech: "I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to know that I was here at this moment. That we were here. And that we were with Kamala every step of the way. This is our time. This is when we stand up. This is when we break through."
The groups protesting the DNC aren't just the antithesis of the status quo. They have well-articulated beliefs. Let's stop pretending they don't exist. https://t.co/dlblHRZM92
It's been troubling to see the pile-on Shapiro for his views on campus protests without similar scrutiny on the other VP potentials for their views...
This by @Yair_Rosenberg is extremely persuasive.
https://t.co/pn10A26u6L
The rise of antisemitism is a five-alarm fire
I feel compelled to speak out as America's highest-ranking Jewish elected official
The normalization and intensifying of this rise in hate is the danger many Jewish people fear most
Read my @NYTimes op-ed:
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