Vox’s head genius Ezra Klein recently announced his support for California’s problematic new “Yes Means Yes” law:
Wooooowwwww RT @Nero: I cannot believe @ezraklein actually wrote this. Speechless. http://t.co/5ZPneha5da
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) October 14, 2014
And New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait is pretty darn disappointed about that:
The liberal response to campus rape has taken on a tone of creeping illiberalism. http://t.co/JmKpo70TJX
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) October 14, 2014
He just expects so much better from the JuiceVox-ers. Because they’re usually so … “grounded in empiricism”? OK, this we’ve gotta see:
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/522024688357101572
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/522025233466011648
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/522027303971586048
Oh dear.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/522028500342296576
Ha! It does smell a bit like brown-nosing, doesn’t it?
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/522029111557255169
Yeah … he can’t. Because it’s a load of bullcrap. But bless his heart, he’ll still try:
@charlescwcooke @seanmdav Point of that line is distinguishing between its coverage of economics/nat'l politics and social issues.
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) October 14, 2014
Sorry, buddy. No dice.
@seanmdav @jonathanchait Empiricism like the Gaza bridge?
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) October 14, 2014
https://twitter.com/cerenomri/status/522028609964617729
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/522029065771835392
@seanmdav @jonathanchait @charlescwcooke empiricism. you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
— DaveinTexas (@DaveinTexas) October 14, 2014
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