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  • This isn’t lemmy, this is a specific community. And your argument brings us back to the whole issue between mods and community members.

    Being a dick to someone trying to make the place better

    Members of a community do have a stake in the community, and in this case, are trying to keep the place from getting worse. It’s an open question who the dick is in the discussion, especially since it was an open call for feedback that then subsequently ignored every comment that disagreed with the idea. It very much came across as a call for ‘positive feedback only’.
























  • The whole framing of the article is that the “untruth” AG needs to be setting straight is overly sensitive political correctness from progressives, and analyzing everything he’s doing through that lens. Whether we have to be neutral and present progressives and “conservatives” on the same footing, or whether we should take a side and say the progressives are wrong.

    I kinda read it differently. I’m not saying you’re wrong, since this is of course all pretty subjective. But at least the way I read it, Bennet is saying that the NYT has a duty to help both sides understand each other, and the way to do that would be by giving a voice to the right and centrists without necessarily endorsing any faction. I agree with it to some extent - as both sides have polarised and pulled away from each other, it’s gotten hard to be a neutral viewpoint in any number of topics without being roundly condemned by both sides.

    is that not Bennet arguing that AG needs to enforce better the pro-fascist standard of truth?

    That’s a tough one. Dogwhistles, weasel words, doublespeak are all things to watch out for. He’s condemning the NYT for changing the language Cotton used, but I’m not familiar enough with US politics to have an opinion if they changed the meaning or just polished the turd.

    Regardless, I appreciate the different viewpoint you presented. As usual, there’s no black and white in these scenarios.