Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

[Husky_Khan]

Seattle Times cancelled and fired their recent hire, who a Twitter outrage mob of Tankies decried as a Trumpist, rural redneck from Georgia, arch-conservative, Nazi, descendant of Jew hunters, and more.

David Josef Volodzko, whose ancestors were hunted by Nazis, and had family members killed in Hitler's concentration camps, is actually a self identified Democratic Socialist, who originally hails from New Jersey and has lived in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, India, Peru, China, Ukraine and rural Georgia before moving to Seattle to become a columnist there.

His first column was about the Vladimir Lenin statue for the Seattle Times and where he made a sinful comparison of Lenin to Hitler, allegedly equivocating they were comparably evil!

Dear Fremont: We need to talk about Lenin and your statue of the genocidal tyrant | David Volodzko

The effigy of the ruthless leader of the Russian Revolution in the quirky neighborhood is an ugly reminder that Seattle's concern for the oppressed has limits.

www.seattletimes.com

Then he posted his column on Twitter...

I made a mistake when I posted the column on Twitter and compared Lenin and Hitler. Here's what I wrote: "In fact, while Hitler has become the great symbol of evil in history books, he too was less evil than Lenin because Hitler only targeted people he personally believed were harmful to society whereas Lenin targeted even those he himself didn't believe were harmful in any way."

I was only speaking in terms of intention—of who wanted to kill more, not who actually did, and in a follow-up tweet I explained: "Hitler was more evil than Lenin if we're looking at what they did to people and that's a pretty important metric for assessing evil!"

It's the kind of topic that you can debate among trusted friends over drinks or dinner. But Twitter is very much not that kind of place. And the argument I was making is a fraught one even under the best of circumstances—you don't need to compare anyone to Hitler to argue that they are evil—and my delivery was poor, to say the least. Four days after I started making these points on Twitter, I deleted the thread.

Poor lad, thinking you could have a substantial discussion over the internet, much less social media like Twitter. Thankfully the Seattle Times had his back!

Six days after my piece was published, I was relieved when my boss told me she had reviewed the Twitter conversation and concluded I had obviously not "defended" Hitler. I was told the company had my back. I was told the paper would not stand for a lying Twitter mob coming after one of its own.

But then, just a few hours later, my boss called me and told me I was fired.

Lenin keeps on winning!

My Family Was Hunted by Nazis. But I Was Fired For ‘Defending Hitler.’

David Volodzko criticized Lenin in ‘The Seattle Times.’ Now he is without a job. A story of profound intolerance in our country’s most “tolerant” city.

www.thefp.com

 

[Cherico]

Never apologize to communists, their monsters treat them as such.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Oh MSNBC is having a discussion about our Founding Fathers and their relevancy to todays current events. What does Reverend Al Sharpton have to say...





Better screenshot this...

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Oh MSNBC is having a discussion about our Founding Fathers and their relevancy to todays current events. What does Reverend Al Sharpton have to say...

You mean like rebelling against the British?

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I think this is a pretty good video to show to normies since it plainly explains why pretty much all modern "journalism" is often just blatant propaganda.

 

[Typhonis]

Back in the 80's... you had 50 or so media corporations in the US. These days there are six.

 

[Cherico]

Back in the 80's... you had 50 or so media corporations in the US. These days there are six.

6 big ones the internet has decentralized a lot of that power back to the people.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Elon Musk is taking on the Anti-Defamation League... how is the Mainstream Media treating it?



What? No... that can't be true. At the very least they must've changed the title by now...

Oh no... nevermind. It's actually much worse.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Elon Musk is taking on the Anti-Defamation League... how is the Mainstream Media treating it?



What? No... that can't be true. At the very least they must've changed the title by now...

Oh no... nevermind. It's actually much worse.

@Husky_Khan I am guilty of sharing some of those MSM articles but because for those subjects there were very few articles on them.

Haaretz doing that article is so fucking funny because by many Israelis is considered the most anti-semitic self-loathing publication.


Just to show how relevant are these accusations outside of the US (and presumely, Canada) :

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These are the 10 subjects trending on Twitter. None of them regarding the blatantly false accusation of antisemitism done against Musk.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Elon Musk is taking on the Anti-Defamation League... how is the Mainstream Media treating it?



What? No... that can't be true. At the very least they must've changed the title by now...

Oh no... nevermind. It's actually much worse.

I guess Elon is literally Hitler now, The one good thing and potentially bad thing about the culture war is that an accusation of being reeecist has little to no effect anymore.

 

[DarthOne]

I guess Elon is literally Hitler now, The one good thing and potentially bad thing about the culture war is that an accusation of being reeecist has little to no effect anymore.

I’d argue it still has an effect on the normies and the boomers, though even then it’s not as strong as it once was.

Of course the downside of this is that the actual racists/Nazis are being able to spread their crap more easily because we have a ‘boy that cried wolf’ situation going on.

 

[Doomsought]

I guess Elon is literally Hitler now

Not Hitler, Von Braun.

 

[DarthOne]

Not Hitler, Von Braun.

I have to include this now.

And what is it that put America in the forefront of
The nuclear nations? And what is it that will make it
Possible to spend twenty billion dollars of your money
To put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old
American know how, that's what, as provided by good
Old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun!

Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi, Schmazi" says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pension to Wernher von Braun

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I’d argue it still has an effect on the normies and the boomers, though even then it’s not as strong as it once was.

Of course the downside of this is that the actual racists/Nazis are being able to spread their crap more easily because we have a ‘boy that cried wolf’ situation going on.

Boomers are rapidly losing relevance just due to the fact that they are starting to die off of old age finally.

 

[Cherico]

Boomers are rapidly losing relevance just due to the fact that they are starting to die off of old age finally.

Must be nice to be a boomer you get to live during a economic golden age rebel against your parents who sacrificed everything to give you a better life get to wreak your entire civilization to fuel your hedonism and self righteousness and die before your bad decisions come home to roost letting other people foot the bill for all your bad decisions.

 

[Bigking321]

I am super uncomfortable blaming a whole generation for... anything really. Too broad of a brush for me.

I'd much rather blame the corrupt sociopathic elites in government and industry that only cared for their own wealth and power and screw everyone else's well being and futures.

 

[Blasterbot]

I am super uncomfortable blaming a whole generation for... anything really. Too broad of a brush for me.

I'd much rather blame the corrupt sociopathic elites in government and industry that only cared for their own wealth and power and screw everyone else's well being and futures.

they did choose to put those people in power and keep them there at the cost of future generations prosperity. they screwed over gen X, the Millennials, and the Zoomers during their reign. The generation that was the hippies became the Yuppies put the greatest generation in nursing homes to die generally ignored and uses reverse mortgages and loads of debt to finance their lifestyle in their twilight years meaning they will pass on very little wealth to the kids generationally.

is it all of them? no. but a friend of mine has a dad who expressed it perfectly to me and him. "I don't care about the debt you guys end up in I want my social security benefits that I paid for". This was just an average leans left kinda boomer guy. that is the kind of guy who has led to this rot that is killing the west. fuck my kids. fuck others kids. I want mine.

 

[posh-goofiness]

It's not just left leaning. It's right as well. Unlike @Bigking321 I am perfectly happy to blame the entire generation for the shit they've pulled. Just as I'm perfectly willing to admit that 90+% of the Millenials are useless fucking pieces of shit.

 

[Cherico]

they did choose to put those people in power and keep them there at the cost of future generations prosperity. they screwed over gen X, the Millennials, and the Zoomers during their reign. The generation that was the hippies became the Yuppies put the greatest generation in nursing homes to die generally ignored and uses reverse mortgages and loads of debt to finance their lifestyle in their twilight years meaning they will pass on very little wealth to the kids generationally.

is it all of them? no. but a friend of mine has a dad who expressed it perfectly to me and him. "I don't care about the debt you guys end up in I want my social security benefits that I paid for". This was just an average leans left kinda boomer guy. that is the kind of guy who has led to this rot that is killing the west. fuck my kids. fuck others kids. I want mine.

I'm a millennial and I'm willing to listen to criticism from most generations about us because we have our fuck ups.

In general gen x got fucked hard, we got fucked hard and I have nothing but sympathy for the zoomers because they have never known a moment when the world wasn't a flaming pile of garbage.

 

[posh-goofiness]

I'm a millennial and I'm willing to listen to criticism from most generations about us because we have our fuck ups.

In general gen x got fucked hard, we got fucked hard and I have nothing but sympathy for the zoomers because they have never known a moment when the world wasn't a flaming pile of garbage.

Lol, no fuck them too. The generation of the Patriot Act, freedom fries, and the forever war? Nope. No sympathy for them either.