Malcolm Gladwell questioned the New Yorker festival’s decision to dump Steve Bannon – our favourite 15 responses
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Malcom, buddy, I love you more than probably anyone, but this is a really bad take.
Giving white supremacy and bigotry and literal hate an even larger platform to air their toxic, dangerous nazisms isn’t an event, it’s called ‘facilitating propaganda’.
Don’t be this guy. Please
— amanda batty (@theamandabatty) September 4, 2018
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Has there ever in history been a sentiment that began with “call me old-fashioned” that wasn’t completely idiotic? https://t.co/FUOL76QVge
— @arcoar.bsky.social (@owensmike) September 4, 2018
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The word “festival” implies something celebratory – something that the New Yorker would broadly endorse https://t.co/mVicWK4vZf
— Peter Bradshaw (@PeterBradshaw1) September 4, 2018
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Oh, okay, so I assume at the next festival you’re involved in you’re going to be inviting ISIS and/or NAMBLA and/or the Ku Klux Klan, because it’s important to have a diversity of ideas amirite?
No offense, but I gotta wonder about your dinner parties too.
— After Daylight 🕯️ (@AfterDaylight) September 4, 2018
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ppl are just eager to line up and make fools of themselves.
People don't need to be exposed to Nazism. It's been around for a bit; we're familiar with it. "Let's discuss the ethics of ethnic cleansing!" that's a festival of genocide, not a festival of ideas. https://t.co/XLIcu19VIh
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) September 4, 2018
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https://twitter.com/ejwillingham/status/1036820340435869696