Yeah, I found that whole tempest in a teapot to be revealing in the extreme. And dull and predictable, but revealing.
Editor thinks he's talking to a kindred spirit and exposes his belligerently ignorant bias. Editor gets outed and should be shamed, but in the weird logic of shaming in what passes for our civic society, the shamed person gets to point out the shameful missteps of everyone shaming him. Even when his shameful act vastly outweighs theirs.
That's the pathetic part, and it's decidedly part of our culture these days. It's in corporate culture, where the person who just embezzled funds gets to point out the CFO is raising his voice; in street culture, where the person who just dented your car gets to fake being angry because you point at them; and in our TV culture, where the guy who slept with his girlfriend's sister gets to point out how his girlfriend badmouths that sister.
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Editor thinks he's talking to a kindred spirit and exposes his belligerently ignorant bias. Editor gets outed and should be shamed, but in the weird logic of shaming in what passes for our civic society, the shamed person gets to point out the shameful missteps of everyone shaming him. Even when his shameful act vastly outweighs theirs.
That's the pathetic part, and it's decidedly part of our culture these days. It's in corporate culture, where the person who just embezzled funds gets to point out the CFO is raising his voice; in street culture, where the person who just dented your car gets to fake being angry because you point at them; and in our TV culture, where the guy who slept with his girlfriend's sister gets to point out how his girlfriend badmouths that sister.