Steve Bannon Disinvited From The New Yorker Festival
I noticed this was happening earlier this morning:
1. Why do the @NewYorker, @MSNBC, and others persist in willingly giving extremist Steve Bannon a free platform? No good comes of this–only the legitimization and normalization of extremism. https://t.co/6GdFdhEX9I
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
2. New Yorker editor David Remnick makes the most common mistake that journalists/others who “debate” or grant 1-on-1 interviews to extremists make. He says, “I have every intention of asking him difficult questions and engaging in a serious and even combative conversation.”
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
3. The mistake is thinking that whatever “difficult questions” or “combativeness” the interviewer may deploy will somehow make up for the equalization effect that any 1-on-1 situation with an extremist suggests. They are elevated and the interviewer lowered. Moreover, the more
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
4. “combative” the interviewer is, the more the extremist’s supporters (& often others as well) will view the extremist as bravely “holding his own” against a hostile interviewer with an agenda. Moreover, the interviewer/debater often overestimates his own abilities and under-
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
5. estimates those of the extremist, who will often have prepared responses to questions he has been asked many times before and will be on firmer ground on the subject (himself) than the interviewer/debater. Legitimate experts (such as historians and biologists) know that there
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
6. is no good reason to “debate” Holocaust deniers or creationists. No advantage is gained by giving them a stage. All the New Yorker is likely to do is to give Bannon free publicity–publicity he dearly needs right now, as he is out of power and depends upon such publicity to
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
7. demonstrate to those who might support him that he is still relevant.
I confess I am much disappointed in the New Yorker. Neither journalism nor the public good are well-served here.
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) September 3, 2018
Mark Pitcavage hasn’t slowed down since he falsely accused David Carothers of being a murderer on Twitter and had Christopher Mathias of Huff Post write a story about him.
The Jewish foot stomping and censorship campaign had gone into full gear by this afternoon:
If Steve Bannon is at the New Yorker festival I am out. I will not take part in an event that normalizes hate. I hope the @NewYorker will do the right thing and cancel the Steve Bannon event. Maybe they should read their own reporting about his ideology.
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) September 3, 2018
Just informed organizers at @newyorker fest to cAncel my event. Apologies to all who paid to see me I was looking forward to it
— Jake Swearingen (@JakeSwearingen) September 3, 2018
I’m out. Sorry, @NewYorker. See if Milo Yiannopoulos is free? https://t.co/pDjlZkUdfO
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) September 3, 2018
i’m no longer going to be speaking/performing at the new yorker festival as long as steve bannon is there
— jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) September 3, 2018
I’m out. I genuinely support public intellectual debate, and have paid to see people speak with whom I strongly disagree. But this isn’t James Baldwin vs William F Buckley. This is PT Barnum level horseshit. And it was announced on a weekend just before tix went on sale. https://t.co/oYk1llNgvV
— John Mulaney (@mulaney) September 3, 2018
REMNICK: So, some people say you want a white ethnostate.
BANNON: Yes.
REMNICK: Ah-ha! But that is racist.
BANNON: Yes.
REMNICK:
BANNON:
REMNICK: I see.
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) September 3, 2018
What we do have is a loosely affiliated elite of gatekeepers unaffected by the violence and racism of the right, and who will write eloquently about it but still see people like Bannon as debating society curios upon which to practice liberal credentials. It’s bracing you see.
— Nesrine Malik (@NesrineMalik) September 3, 2018
Honestly, my world is now divided between those who understand that this is a dogfight and the consequences of losing will be catastrophic, and those who think it would be nice to go for a drink with the other team after the debate
— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) September 3, 2018
This decision demonstrates how the intellectual class doesn’t truly understand racism or xenophobia. They treat it like an intellectual project, where perhaps if we ask “hard question” and bandy about “controversial” ideas, good work is being done.
— roxane gay (@rgay) September 3, 2018
Did they really think Steve Bannon was going to win anyone over at The New Yorker Festival?
John Mulaney, Judd Apatow, Jim Carrey, and Jack Antonoff have all tweeted that they’re pulling out of the New Yorker Festival over Steve Bannon.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 3, 2018
A statement from David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, explaining his decision to no longer include Steve Bannon in the 2018 New Yorker Festival. pic.twitter.com/opayiw5GQ2
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 3, 2018
Breaking: @NewYorker has disinvited Steve Bannon from its annual festival. Here’s part of David Remnick’s note to the staff. pic.twitter.com/lspZPLCiJt
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 3, 2018
I’ve seen people referring to the push to get the New Yorker to retract their invitation to Steve Bannon as “bullying.” If you think it is, you need to be real clear how you’re defining that word.
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) September 3, 2018
No, they have provided us with an excellent example though of how Jewish gatekeeping and censorship works in the mainstream media and via social media outrage mobs.
Source: http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2018/09/03/steve-bannon-disinvited-from-the-new-yorker-festival/
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