Ida Bae Wells Conor Friedersdorf Adam Serwer 🍝 More McCarthyite ad hominem slurs instead of arguments.

Ida Bae Wells Conor Friedersdorf Adam Serwer 🍝 She decided to include what she calls a 'myth' about 'large sex organs' among African-Americans. As a test to see just how fact-checked these essays were, I merely asked her what sources she had that this is indeed a 'myth.' 2/

Andrew Sullivan Ida Bae Wells Conor Friedersdorf So you read a piece about persistent myths about black pain tolerance, “thicker skin” and “lung capacity” created by slaveowners trying to justify slavery, and your response was to insist on justifying one of those myths and then ask “how is that racist?” nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Andrew Sullivan Ida Bae Wells Conor Friedersdorf I realize that your brain has been broken ever since TNC surpassed you in acclaim as an essayist and wrote books people actually bought and read, but re-embracing race pseudoscience invented by slavemasters is not the way to validate yourself.