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13410768, Glenn perfectly encapsulates what is happening
Posted by reaction, Fri Oct-30-20 10:02 AM
with the majority of political discourse on OKP and many other places with these lines from the resignation "That’s the crisis that journalism, and more broadly values of liberalism, faces. Our discourse is becoming increasingly intolerant of dissenting views, and our culture is demanding more and more submission to prevailing orthodoxies imposed by self-anointed monopolists of Truth and Righteousness, backed up by armies of online enforcement mobs.

Some of my favourite takes from Twitter:

I don't understand how anyone who calls themselves a leftist can hate Glenn Greenwald. What do you dislike? That he effectively subverts the most popular cable news show? That he makes powerful, empirical indictments of the pathologies in both the Democratic & Republican parties? That he broke the Snowden story? That he exposed Brazilian right-wingers and fascists? I don't agree with everything he says. I don't agree with anyone about everything! Neither do you! The idea that Greenwald is a useful idiot for the right or a Dave Rubin type character is so beyond stupid that I can't even and I never use that phrase. Goodnight.

https://twitter.com/aishaismad/status/1321973192777486341?s=20

Assange is in solitary.
Snowden's in exile.
Corbyn's suspended by his own party.
Now Glenn Greenwald's been censored by The Intercept.
There's a war on truth-tellers & you could be next.

"First they came for Assange and I said nothing..."

https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1321897520096825344?s=20

People who want to claim that a person is “on the right” or “on the left”or whatever should be able to identify a few positions and beliefs the person holds indicative of that ideology. Those terms reference an ideological belief system; they’re not tribal identifiers.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1321972270449991680?s=20