The Trunk

Ryking

You believe the right-wing Jeff Miller is “probably one of the most fair editors of #politics?” Well, we’ve all seen how silly your beliefs are, and how they’re totally unsupported by reality, so this comes as no surprise. As for Miller’s promotion of holeycynicism’s piece: By any objective standard it is an absurdly bad piece, a poorly written, juvenile rant against Occupy Wall Street that reeks of smug ignorance. While I understand how that might appeal to right-wingers like yourself and Miller, its promotion tells me that either Miller promoted the piece because of its author’s skin color — the way right-wingers promote Herman Cain because they think it insulates them and their racist policies from charges of racism — or Miller’s standards for promoting posts are ludicrously low. The fact remains: It had no business being promoted, and it’s just the latest example of why all of Tumblr’s right-wing editors should be replaced by right-wingers of a higher caliber… unless you pathetic lot are the best Tumblr has to offer, in which case I look forward to mocking you all some more. — Ryking

I suppose I ought to respond to this.

1. Considering the percent of my blog devoted to the death penalty, the drug war, foreign wars, civil liberties, I’m hardly “right-wing.” I’m libertarian.

2. I promote all kinds of ideological posts to the Politics page, often those I disagree with.

3. Ryking believes I promoted the post in question because holeycynicism is black. That’s not true. I promoted the post because it (1) was an original post (and not just a quote from someone else’s work), (2) because it parsed a statement by Occupy Dallas, which I hadn’t seen on Tumblr before, and (3) because I thought holeycynicism’s take on the movement might provoke a interesting political discussion. Sadly, it only provoked Ryking’s rage. Rather than defend the Occupy Dallas statement, or counter holeycynicism’s argument with statistic or logic, Ryking chose to launch a personal attack against the author and my promotion of him. Was holeycynicism’s post emotional? Was it part rant? Sure. The OWS movement is an emotional rant, so perhaps this was fitting. But if Ryking is so sure that the post “reeks of smug ignorance,” I’d suggest he write something substantive to advance the argument.

4. Given Ryking’s treatment of fellow Tumblrs, I hardly think he should decide who staffs the Politics page. And I’d gladly tender my resignation from the panel if he would do the same.

Source: holeycynicism