The Real Jim Shady
Feb 25, 2017 · 1 min read

I appreciate the offer, but I looked at the site, and I see a lot of extreme right-wing stuff on there. I believe you’re doing it in an effort to be balanced, but I don’t believe in balance. You see, I believe in facts. I believe that some opinions are base and invalid. I know the sacred mantra is ‘everyone has an opinion,’ but the media’s efforts to be balanced allowed extreme right-wingers like Bannon and his KKKronies to have a voice and a say (and now, control) of public discourse. Opinions like his and like the ones on Breitbart are antithetical to democracy. Philosophers can debate the ethics of shutting up the intolerant and the logic of arguing about whether it’s OK to say ‘I won’t tolerate intolerance,’ but I won’t debate it. I’m done with allowing violent, intolerant racists a voice. So thanks, but no. I’ll stay here.

    The Real Jim Shady

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    I am a pop-culture fanatic, a thinker who philosophizes with a big, scary hammer, and a master of profane erudition. When they go low, I go lower!

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