Reddit reviews Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Chait to Chapo and Brooks to Breitbart
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In this case it's more of a problem with Noah Berlatsky. The guy is an extremely prolific nutjob.
The article describes him as
>the author most recently of "Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Brooks to Breitbart and Chait to Chapo."
That book is hysterical. https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF if you want to take a quick look. It's literally a series of screeds about how every pundit he can think of is a problematic nazi. The preface begins "This book is a collection of occasional columns written mostly to tell various pundits that they suck and are wrong". The guy is an absolute lolcow on twitter known for nuclear hot takes and blocking literally everyone. I am not kidding when I say that I have seen interviews get completely derailed when his name comes up, because people would rather spend a few minutes to make fun of him than talk about about whatever they're supposed to be focusing on. Just look at how happy they are that they get to talk about their favorite lolcow in public. One is PERSONALLY OFFENDED that she hasn't gotten blocked yet and the other is blocked without having ever interacted with him (an incredibly common occurance, everyone with a twitter should go find out if they're blocked yet, I know I am.) Just searching @nberlat blocked will yield thousands upon thousands of people upset and amused by this rite of passage.
This is the guy who, in response to some incel running people over in Toronto, wrote a piece in NBC telling everyone he was a virgin until 27. The dude was only 3 years away from becoming wizard and basically on the road to being an incel, saying "my virginity was a source of substantial anxiety, unhappiness and self-loathing."
Search KiA for "Berlatsky" and you'll see that this particular ideologue enjoys ranting about us pretty regularly. One of the more recent ones that got under my skin was http://archive.is/2rOsU mostly because I got WAYYY too deep into Evergreen and the piece was just... let's move on.
Long story short, it's less of a problem with the Post and more of a problem with literally any publication that will let this lunatic continue his autistic screeching. And even if they DID choose to stop publishing his pieces, he'd just write and self-publish another book.
And yes, I did write all of this up because I also can't help but get derailed into telling people about one of my favorite lolcows.
Edit: While looking at his book again, I was reminded of this: http://archive.is/cPS3N
>Everyone Tell Jonathan Chait to Shut Up by Noah Berlatsky
> Last summer, I wrote a piece for the Atlantic in which I argued that Orange Is the New Black (OITNB)fails to effectively critique prison as an institution because prison as an institution in the United States is directed mostly at men, and OITNB presents prison as bad because it victimizes women. The piece went semi-viral as a hate read, and was widely denounced. Jezebel wrote an article with the very Jezebel title “Writer Doesn’t Understand Why Show About Women’s Prison Has So Few Men.” Music critic Brandon Soderberg called me as a “clueless cracker pedant” on Twitter. Folks I liked and respected told me in no uncertain terms that what I had written was unfeminist and generally awful. There was a massive comment thread with people lining up to tell me I was stupid and should shut up. The left, the damn left, in all its insular self-righteousness, would not tolerate brave dissent such as mine.
>Or at least, that’s the conclusion I would come to if I were Jonathan Chait. Chait has written a long article for New York magazine in which he bemoaned the return of political correctness and the toxic culture of the left.....
Here we have a completely factually accurate description of nberlat writing a fucking dumb article, going viral for being a fucking moron, getting widely publicly mocked for his retarded views (including by the furthest left fringes in Gawker's feminist blog and on twitter)... and then taking a left turn and pointing at the evil right-wing boogeymen including GamerGate and free speech activists. He also runs down many of the groups of people that think he's a complete nutter and should probably keep his mouth shut instead of subjecting us all to his latest screeches (protip: it's literally everyone). All-in-all it's a great read and I highly encourage it. A truly remarkable self-own. I think it's clearly in his top 10 and I'm glad he included it in the first section of his book, fully reproduced in the free sample that Amazon gives you.
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reminder: if any of you really care about hot takes you'll preorder this book
https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF