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But first, Pompeo's farewell. Only a few short years ago I thought it would be safe to say there would never be a worse secretary of state than Rex Tillerson, and I was wrong. But in his departure, he really transcended himself:
It's kind of an alternate to "saying the quiet parts out loud": the silence of where they belong is even louder. Indeed it's monoculturalism, the suppression of difference. Everybody's supposed to be Mike Pompeo. Or in the original German, "Ein Land, ein Volk, ein Führer."
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 20, 2021
That's the wrong word for what China had been doing to its larger non-Han groups, Tibetans and Uyghurs and Mongols and Hui Muslims. It's more a kind of soft genocide they're aiming at, an elimination of cultural difference and denial of political power.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 21, 2021
They condemn forced labor in Xinjiang and elsewhere in Chinese northwest, but demand unsatisfiable "work requirements" for minority recipients of government aid.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 21, 2021
The Chinese government wants minority peoples to speak more Chinese and Muslims in particular to be less of fervently Muslim. Republicans like Pompeo want US minorities to speak more English and treats Islam as an intrinsically suspect religion.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 21, 2021
When Pompeo denounces "multiculturalism", he's advocating the kind of cultural homogenization that he calls "genocide" when other countries do it. Not really genocide but not at all benign.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 21, 2021
No brief for China's abominable treatment of its minorities, but Pompeo and friends do everything they can to push the same kind of soft genocide here.
As to The Times, when they're not pushing Republicans' "populist" agenda by painting Our Joe Biden as some kind of decadent aristocrat swimming in unimaginable luxury with his exercise bicycle and fancy watch
Like to go further than that: I'm really pretty glad that Joe Biden, for decades the poorest member of the Senate, finally took some time to make some real money (book deals and public speaking) and enjoys spending some of it on himself. https://t.co/HYLanz1TkQ
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
they're firing their own editors, apparently provoked by populist Mr. Greenwald
And of course it was Greenwald who first amplified the "offending" tweet, because be can't fathom anyone having a sense of relief about the candidate he preferred being defeated
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) January 24, 2021
Sometimes they really deserve that #Clueless #Elitist tag as much as Senators Hawley and Cruz. None of us here in the lower orders minds if a guy buys himself a Rolex, if he's a nice guy.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
OH MY GOD says the Church of High Broderism, DOESN'T THAT SOUND A LITTLE BIASED? https://t.co/Oce2TaByi1
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
DEAR ME sniffs the Cult of the Savvy IS SHE ALLOWING HERSELF TO BECOME THE STORY? https://t.co/1xwieMBMIq
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
Now do a thread about someone who got canceld/lost their job, just because they went to the Trump rally on January 6th, without taking part in the Capitol riot, someone like Ariel Pink, for instance.
— J.K. Rohsmann (@JKRohsmann) January 24, 2021
IA Times reporter with these views would have to be let go on grounds of being unable to distinguish truth from falsehood--those claims on election and Dominion have been thoroughly disproven and Times openly calls them lies.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
But they let @Wolfe321 go for expressing an emotion.
Siri, what's "ostentation"? This one is $40K https://t.co/ZIUhWj5R14 pic.twitter.com/e6feedHdr3
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
But then again
I won't really cancel. But there's some terrible management that serves these wonderful people badly.
— Coup Coup Barabajagal (@Yastreblyansky) January 24, 2021
So what the hell. The Times denies (per Washington Post) that the "chills" Tweet had anything to do with it and, more or less, that she was exactly fired; she was a freelance editor, with no contract, which makes me madder, since I was a freelance editor for some years for a publisher as distinguished as the Times, treated like dirt so they didn't have to pay benefits, and unceremoniously fired without five minutes notice when they decided to stop publishing the series I was working on.
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