You're doing just fine. You are reaching people, and that is important. Keep doing what you are doing, and do it as hard as journalism can be done. Journalism isn't about telling people what they want to hear; it's often telling them about things they they don't want to hear. Sometimes you may not like people in your community but even the pariah is part of the whole, and no sane person jumps back into the river if they dislike the person that pulled them out of it. We need to be able to band together and stop being the snowflakes because the opposition is coming to tear us apart. That is their goal. If we start excluding people from the alphabet we are made smaller, weaker, and easier to pick off, and make no mistake they are coming for all of us.
God, I am so tired of echo chamber discourse! I don’t have to sit down and debate my humanity with people who want to kill me in order to understand why they want to kill me, or how to defeat them. Nor do I need to read about it when someone else decides to wade in to the shit with them.
While Boykin is not exactly one of those people, he is a Trump activist/cultist who is dedicated to enabling them at any cost (remember, he thinks Democrats will Destroy America TM). I feel it’s largely pointless and potentially harmful to engage with someone who has staked so much of their identity and energy into advocating for this shitty guy. I see much greater potential in talking to “average” people who voted Trump, if you seek to understand other perspectives. Simply sharing a presidential voting record does not mean that this specific activist represents anywhere near 50% of our country, and courting him does not necessarily give you better access to them.
I want to keep subbing but this obsession with “non-partisan” posturing is frankly too tiresome. Not that I expect anyone really cares, at this point I’m just going off in a barren comment section for my own gratification lol. Best of luck with the publication.
"Most-read story we’ve published so far"
You're doing just fine. You are reaching people, and that is important. Keep doing what you are doing, and do it as hard as journalism can be done. Journalism isn't about telling people what they want to hear; it's often telling them about things they they don't want to hear. Sometimes you may not like people in your community but even the pariah is part of the whole, and no sane person jumps back into the river if they dislike the person that pulled them out of it. We need to be able to band together and stop being the snowflakes because the opposition is coming to tear us apart. That is their goal. If we start excluding people from the alphabet we are made smaller, weaker, and easier to pick off, and make no mistake they are coming for all of us.
God, I am so tired of echo chamber discourse! I don’t have to sit down and debate my humanity with people who want to kill me in order to understand why they want to kill me, or how to defeat them. Nor do I need to read about it when someone else decides to wade in to the shit with them.
While Boykin is not exactly one of those people, he is a Trump activist/cultist who is dedicated to enabling them at any cost (remember, he thinks Democrats will Destroy America TM). I feel it’s largely pointless and potentially harmful to engage with someone who has staked so much of their identity and energy into advocating for this shitty guy. I see much greater potential in talking to “average” people who voted Trump, if you seek to understand other perspectives. Simply sharing a presidential voting record does not mean that this specific activist represents anywhere near 50% of our country, and courting him does not necessarily give you better access to them.
I want to keep subbing but this obsession with “non-partisan” posturing is frankly too tiresome. Not that I expect anyone really cares, at this point I’m just going off in a barren comment section for my own gratification lol. Best of luck with the publication.