https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-homeschool-article-dangerous-parents-risk
Keeping parents with children is dangerous. They go to Harvard and they write articles like this unironically. They will absolutely take your children if they could.
No of course not. These are people who just write opinion pieces. There's not a single reporter or journalist (whatever those are nowadays) at Slate. Literally every single article there is "this is what I think about this thing". When they do their explainers, they're just explaining what their opinion is.
And when I say "opinion" I don't mean their own opinion. It's the opinion assigned to them during editorial meetings. There's no cognitive dissonance because there is no thought, no memory, just write what you're told.
I work and live among these people. Believe me, they think they're right about everything and that the best thing they can do with their lives is explain to you how you should live yours. They are absolutely shocked that not everyone thinks like they do outside their big shiny glass city.
Because when I call the cops from my Highland Park house they're in my driveway in three maybe five minutes and those guys know me, they know what my wife looks like, we see them around town and we smile and wave. Those guys are primed to dropthegun or droptheknife someone right away.
You get a call from some MLK or Rosa Parks Boulevard the cops don't come at all.
edit: also, poor people are used to being robbed and know what the deal is. Rich suburbanites panic and do all kinds of stupid shit. It's a hassle.
Media: China covered up the Tienanmen Square Massacre
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/25/world/ex-official-urges-beijing-to-end-tiananmen-cover-up.html
Media: China lies about uighur concentrantion camps:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
Same Media: China has handled the coronavirus superbly and is totally not lying about anything at all:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/asia/china-coronavirus-zero-infections.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/world/europe/europe-china-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/coronavirus-news.html
They swallow the propaganda when it's convenient to their bosses, when China cracks the whip.
This douchebag has the temerity to tweet "I offered both Pres Trump and VP Pence an opportunity to reassure Americans."
The fucking gall. That's his job? His job is to offer opportunities to the President? He wants to be a bridge between POTUS and the millions of people the media is panicking?
He should have been thrown out on his ass for wasting everyone's time. He imagines America as a nation of cowards. Our eighteen-year olds charged Nazi machine-guns up the beach, maybe he's got us confused with his own circle of friends.
"glorifying violence" is exactly like the sort of ambiguous thought-crimes the Nazis used to imprison people. Of course the past Evil Germans used ambiguity for Evil, but the present Good Germans only use ambiguity for Good, so I'm not sure what I'm complaining about. I'm sure everyone has learned their lesson.