OMfuckingG: The very #BrokenTimes frames cute names for concentration camps as "all in good fun;" puts scare quotes around "disgrace." They've lost it. Appalling. Sick. Wrong.
All in Good Fun, or a ‘Disgrace’? Names of Detention Centers Divide Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/immigration-detention-center-nickname-alligator-cornhusker-slammer.html?smid=tw-share
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@jeffjarvis Wow. I didn't think anything would make me say "What the actual F***" any more.
@jeffjarvis Looks like they tried distancing themselves from it, but... uh... that just makes it worse, really?
@jeffjarvis Burn more flags.
@jeffjarvis The FoxNewsification of the NYT.
I seriously don't understand why people are still stuck on the idea that the NYT "used to be good," that it hasn't been absolute shit for the last 20+ years.
Is it really an excuse that "well, I was only four when they disgraced themselves with their coverage of Bush's Great Adventure in Iraq"?
I would say not.
Pull your head out of your fucking ass and stop reading their bullshit.
@jeffjarvis Could you imagine even Nazi Germany having such a demented headline about a concentration camp? The NYT is unhinged!
The #BrokenTimes language for human suffering: "ginning up indignation...government by troll...irreverence synced to the fast-moving ironic currents of the chronically online, detached from concerns about impropriety...veered into white nationalist territory." That is, RACISM.
"Alligator Auschwitz," too, is flippant and glib. Do not bring humor to the Holocaust. These are concentration camps. Journalists should use direct language to describe what they see--fascism, racism, authoritarianism, illegality; only then can they report and explain.
@jeffjarvis US-Journalists surrendered many many years ago
* "embedded journalism in war"
* they have weapons of mass destruction
* Guantánamo
* water-boarding
* war crimes by US soldiers made public by WikiLeaks
* Obama authorized more drone killings than victims on Stalin's death lists
* ...
what trump is doing now is not in any way more serve than what the US did in the last 20,30,40 years
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