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malsperanza's avatar

Individuals are always vulnerable, indeed. And when we are victimized by governments, we have to push back. How? Well, through the press, mainly.

Attacking and subverting the press is qualitatively different from targeting individuals, or even persecuting a religious or racial group. It's like attacking and subverting the courts: it's a central structural pillar of the whole edifice of democracy. If the press is loud about this, it's not because it's being self-serving and egocentric, but because without the press there is no way to even know when individuals are abused, much less do anything about it.

I object to any tendency to downplay what the administration has done because a) the Press is a bunch of assholes and we hate them; or b) Obama did it, so there's probably a justification or it wasn't that bad; or c) anyway, look over there: someone is abusing another group, and Republicans did more of it.

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fuflans's avatar

ah. i see. twitter.

so my white walker / zombie comment was prescient.

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