I get the feeling that quality control at Quillette is not much of a thing, as long as the politics are "right": it looks like an essay that immediately sounded fake to many readers has been pulled after a short appearance on the site. Tweets about it here.
Quillette's Andy Ngo, meanwhile, has been busy tweeting support for the the proposition that the Dayton killer is the "first antifa mass killer". (The guy had apparently even turned up at an antifa rally - in support of them - with his rifle.)
The problem for Ngo and his New York Post ilk is that the actual target of the killings has no connection with antifa rhetoric: I haven't noticed them spending time whipping up criticism of people who go out to an entertainment district on a Saturday night. (And it would also seem, given his sibling was one killed, that he may have had family issues that led to the spree.)
There's no doubt that young male killers with emotional and social issues can follow either side of politics: the problem comes when you can see a clear connection between the targets of the killings and the political rhetoric they endorse and follow.
Is that too much for Andy to grasp?
No comments:
Post a Comment