Yes, bowing down to the insane proclamation of a dictator will ensure that an organization remains “apolitical.” Please read a book on the rise of authoritarian governments. Any of them seems like they’d be new to you - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Yes, bowing down to the insane proclamation of a dictator will ensure that an organization remains “apolitical.”

Please read a book on the rise of authoritarian governments. Any of them seems like they’d be new to you

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michaelmorrison.bsky.social•8 days ago

A fun game to play with Atlantic writers these days (I used to have a subscription) is “woefully obtuse” or “disingenuous fraud”? This is a tricky one

jonzor.bsky.social•8 days ago

God, it's like Sophie's Choice.

roosefella.bsky.social•8 days ago

This doofus is just trolling for attention.

misterzip2.bsky.social•8 days ago

His response seems sincere, so I think it’s “woefully obtuse.”

billthepony.bsky.social•8 days ago

A woeful fraud? Disingenuously obtuse?

michaelmorrison.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’d believe it.
I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt that he’s not just so dumb to think immediately giving in to the asshole is a good strategy.

druboats.bsky.social•7 days ago

Funny

urban-achiever.bsky.social•8 days ago

He seems like he's particularly obtuse. To the point of willful stupidity.

michaelmorrison.bsky.social•8 days ago

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, “It is difficult to get an Atlantic writer to understand something, when their salary depends on their not understanding it.”

urban-achiever.bsky.social•8 days ago

And speaking specifically of an Atlantic staffer: sometimes even when their salary demands they do understand it. See: Chait, McKay Coppins, Tom Nichols.

demandatension.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes. This. I quit my subscription because of Tom Nichols's willfully obtuse observations re: protesting college students.

librariansteve.bsky.social•7 days ago

In his book the Death of Expertise, he spent a whole chapter on campus political correctness without a single citation. No expertise, just vibes, demonstrating exactly what he said he was criticizing. Campus PC was a profitable seam of opinion-haver ore, so his income depended on shoveling it.

kim65.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's not stupidity. It's consuming Republican/right-wing propaganda with your guard down. Calling ppl stupid just makes them double down

urban-achiever.bsky.social•8 days ago

I didn't call him stupid. I called him obtuse. I suspect Elie would be fine with this.

lisafarrar.bsky.social•8 days ago

🎯

derek.bsky.social•8 days ago

Enough of the fucking lawyers controlling every aspect of our day-to-day lives.

We need historians out there telling everyone where all of this leads.

alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social•7 days ago

how about a carton about the political boss throwing out hard working people and giving the jobs to his pals
a little like the 1930's vintage

alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social•7 days ago

or look up political patronage and the creation of the civil service
Civil service laws was how they were able to stop the corruption that came with political patronage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system#:~:text=In%20politics%20and%20government%2C%20a,to%20keep%20working%20for%20the

gwpda.bsky.social•7 days ago

Reminds me of when Gov Janet Napolitano single-handedly changed the name of Squaw Peak, in Phoenix, to Piestewa Peak - in honor of Spc Lori Piestewa "the first known Native American woman to die in combat in the U.S. military and the first female soldier to be killed in action in the 2003 Iraq War"

bjosephh.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can you recommend one of these books, please?

coalsmom.bsky.social•8 days ago

Please read anything by Anne Applebaum.

rachellazerus.bsky.social•8 days ago

Anne Applebaum is so great, and she's a staff writer at The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/anne-applebaum/?lctg=6796bccb7b375dec1909a709

Too bad the senior editor at The Atlantic who wrote this stupid strawman article has never read her work.

garrett-rudolph.bsky.social•7 days ago

Imagine writing such a terrible, bootlicking op-ed that you get scolded for bowing down to a dictator by one of the country's leading historians.

Glad we have people like Kevin speaking up.

dc4hope.bsky.social•7 days ago

He’s clearly a MAGAt nazi cheering on the end of our democracy

aprillia.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is this a quisling?

zscottyg.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nah, just a disingenuous hack. He’s still got plenty of clickbait to author before he merits quisling.

cfhirsch.bsky.social•7 days ago

I would also go with “troll”

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