Winds of Change reports that the American Prospect is throwing around legal threats at a blogger and anyone who even dares to reprint his "defamatory and false allegations."
The particulars of this are messy and the blogger in question, one Steve Sailer, doesn't seem like any angel. Still, is this how media outlets are supposed to act? No.
But of course the Prospect isn't really a media outlet and the folks who work there aren't really journalists--they're political activists. Not that there's anything wrong with it!
I only point this out by way of suggesting to Winds of Change, Glenn Reynolds, and others, that this action from the Prospect shouldn't be much of a surprise. (Consider the "journalists" the Prospect employs.) And unlike actual journalists, activists owe no particular devotion to honesty, objectivity, or free speech--except as it suits their interests. They should be free to use legal intimidation however they see fit.
So please, let's not have any hand-wringing over the American Prospect's "crushing of dissent." They’re not being hypocritical or unseemly or anything else bad. They’re just doing what they do.
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The "moonbats will be moonbats" defense. Cute.
Maybe throwing a rock through a McDonald's window is also less of a crime when the rock-thrower is an "activist"?
Let's see how "activist" defenders of The American Prospect react if Steve S.'s supports chip in enough $ to hire a law frim to send intimidating letters to individual American Prospect staffers.
Or how about "activist" friends of Steve obtaining the home telephone numbers and addresses of TAP staffers?
"Activists" can call American Prospect staffers in the middle of the night to express and manifest "activist" memes. Also, said "activists" can send TAP staff persons anonymous paper mail messages reminding TAP staffers that "activists" know where TAPers live.
The endas justify the means, doncha know. There's no such thing as moderation in the defense of virtue.
-david.davenport.1@netzero.com
"the American Prospect is throwing around legal threats at a blogger and anyone who even dares to reprint his "defamatory and false allegations"
No, the American Prospect made unfounded accusations that Sailer was a racist. Sailer pointed out the American Prospect writer attacking him had herself been subject to bogus accusations of racism by a third party ('Ana Sofia'). TAP then made legal threats to Sailer and anyone else making reference to the accusations of 'Ana Sofia'. Sailer himself never accused TAP of racism, he only pointed out the hypocrisy and irony of TAP's position.
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