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Ta Coates got fired from The Atlantic for undisclosed reasons
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:30 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. lol what's REALLY going on here?
Ta-Nehisi Coates stepping down at The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates will be stepping down as a national correspondent at The Atlantic after 10 years with the publication, according to The Washington Post.
"Our colleague, and dear friend, Ta-Nehisi Coates is stepping down as a national correspondent for The Atlantic," wrote Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg in a note to staff. "As he has explained to me — and as he’s written in the recent past — the last few years for him have been years of significant changes."
"He’s told me that he would like to take some time to reflect on these changes, and to figure out the best path forward, both as a person and as a writer," Goldberg added.
Coates, 42, told the Post that he has no plans to go to another publication.
“It was this or nothing,” Coates said. “I didn’t have anything else.”
Coates is known as one of the more influential writers in the industry. He won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2015 for “Between the World and Me,” which talks in candid terms about his experience of being a black man in America.
Controversy swirled at The Atlantic in April not long after the abrupt firing of conservative and controversial writer Kevin Williamson, a move for which Coates had initially advocated. Williamson was hired and fired not long after backlash regarding his comments on abortion.
A leaked tape obtained by HuffPost later revealed that Coates said he felt like he had failed "the writers of color" at The Atlantic by endorsing Williamson.
“I was not like, 'don’t hire that dude.' To the contrary, I thought, 'OK, well he can come in and represent the position, and then we can fight it out,' ” Coates said on the leaked tape.
“I became the public face of the magazine in many ways, and I don’t really want to be that. I want to be a writer,” Coates told the Post. “I’m not a symbol of what The Atlantic wants to do or whatever.”
Coates still has plans to release a new book in the coming year. He also teaches at New York University.
He added to the Post that he's open to returning to The Atlantic to write a piece "in six months or a year."
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/398130-ta-nehisi-coates-stepping-down-at-the-atlantic |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:18 PM Author: \"\"\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\' Libs are such retrograde dumbasses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473025) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:45 AM Author: A Fresh Young WHORE In The Territory plagiarism, sexism, or corruption? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473733) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 12:39 PM Author: ,.,;,;,.;,.;,.;,,,,;,.,; plagiarism is my first thought. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36480882) |
Date: July 21st, 2018 9:32 PM Author: Generation Chill He's getting out of the way because he doesn't want to be embarrassed by Coleman Hughes and Thomas Chatterton Williams. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472862) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:33 PM Author: pepito (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472866) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:46 PM Author: ARE Reptile A job with that rag pays like $35k a year. Homeless bums on the subway make more bank than print journalists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472909) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:43 PM Author: Hasidic Woman Performing Deviant Hava Nagila (High Constitutional Moment) Tax free, too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473396) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:20 PM Author: ...,,..,,., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473035) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:36 PM Author: jafar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472873) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:37 PM Author: pepito (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472877) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:39 PM Author: jafar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472881) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:40 PM Author: Ok boomer (Kevin spacey) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472884) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:41 PM Author: pepito (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472887) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:44 PM Author: Ok boomer I thought he got handsy with a ton of guys (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472899) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:12 AM Author: Neal V. Stephens 410 Alabama Dr. Herndon VA 20170 the entire catholic church? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473471) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 8:16 AM Author: Ok boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473990) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:43 PM Author: ARE Reptile He never finished college so LMAO at this uppity nig with a large vocabulary being educated. This fucktard failed out of Howard. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472895) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:52 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, He doesn't even use half his fancy words properly. It's obvious he just opens the thesaurus when he writes. Such anathema (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472927) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:21 PM Author: ...,,..,,., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473041) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:12 PM Author: zoomer (uspo) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473275) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:21 PM Author: Such anathema to us! (as The Americans) Yes? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473326) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:21 AM Author: Pumonymous (Penultimate racist) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473670) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 2:11 AM Author: Woah Cr friend! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473785) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:27 AM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473955) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 9:08 AM Author: I}e $H /-\\ u N Agreed. His stuff seems too frothy, like always one too many pumps of the sweetened syrup in one's Starbucks drink, so it doesn't taste right, it's like he thinks to himself when writing, "never use a simple word when a polysyllabic term can be jammed in in it's place without TOO much loss of meaning." And his writing reeks of what's worst about social science writing, nebulous terms whipped together with conceptual heuristics gravely pretending to be earnest problem solving. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479639) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 12:40 PM Author: chilmata (Big Dawg) lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36480887) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:45 AM Author: woke bogan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473735) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:37 PM Author: 1st Ballot Wigger Hall of Famer The Atlantic is too conservative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472875) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:42 PM Author: ARE Reptile I think they finally realized that he doesnt hate white privilege but just white people in general and doesnt even really hide it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472891) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:45 PM Author: 1st Ballot Wigger Hall of Famer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472902) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:18 PM Author: \"\"\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473027) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:19 PM Author: boner police? yeah im sure the beady eyed hooknosed kikes running the atlantic think thats an issue lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473030) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:12 PM Author: zoomer (uspo) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473277) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:30 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon Bunch o scum-sucking peterbois (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473358) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:49 PM Author: Buck "The Club" Paulette (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473406) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:38 AM Author: Blink 182 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473719) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:42 PM Author: donny (retired) (donny) Aids (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472892) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:43 PM Author: teabaggervance low iq pedo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472893) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:43 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, Plagiarism or ghost writing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472894) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:45 PM Author: ARE Reptile His being utterly destroyed by real black scholars like John McWhorter hopefully explains it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472904) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:46 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. i doubt that would be enough for them to shitcan a macarthur genius grant recipient like coates. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472906) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:48 PM Author: ARE Reptile Right, but every single black intellectual coming out against him except for that commie faggot Cornell West should, in an ideal world, be enough. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472914) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:59 PM Author: .,.,....,.,.,.,:,:,...,:::,....,:,.,.:...,:.::,. I thought west has (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472944) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 12:41 PM Author: ,.,;,;,.;,.;,.;,,,,;,.,; Twist: MacArthur Grant was given for plagiarized work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36480891) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:47 PM Author: see you on the western sky Idiocracy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472911) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:47 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, Lol look at how he speaks - so eloquent!
“I was not like, 'don’t hire that dude.' To the contrary, I thought, 'OK, well he can come in and represent the position, and then we can fight it out,' ” Coates said on the leaked tape.
This is a fucking "MacArthur Genius"
"Like, whatever, dude" |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:49 PM Author: ARE Reptile He failed out of fucking Howard, bro. Heroin addicts get degrees from that shit pile on the reg. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472916) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:50 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, CR. Comm major , no less. I remember a quote from his former editor saying how he was practically illiterate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472918) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:21 AM Author: Pumonymous I thought Blue Smoke went to Yale? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473672) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:27 AM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473956) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:52 PM Author: solace and wallace wow, he used the word 'dude' in casual conversation. So ghetto! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472925) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:26 PM Author: waiting for the great leap forward (ggtp) Yeah, this may have been the most aspie possible criticism of the guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473063) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:29 AM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, Oh please, it's not the way esteemed members of the literati speak . It's obvious that his writing, as bad as it is, is nonetheless heavily edited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473958) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 12:07 AM Author: Jeremy Usborne (dude who's never heard of, like, codeswitching) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36478657) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:50 PM Author: solace and wallace all you have to do is read some of his articles and you'd understand why he'd want to step down and lay low.
He used to treat the Atlantic like his blog, but he's steadily moved away from that |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:51 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.;..,:,..,.:,.:.,:.::, This is very much a read between the lines departure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472920) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:07 PM Author: beckersted. expand on that. i basically stopped reading whatever made it to me via SM years ago.
i got the impression by glossing over that he was fatigued by being "the black guy in the room talking for all black people" especially when super bright black dudes took him to task for basically being a reverseracistmo. |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:24 PM Author: solace and wallace his M.O. is criticizing people on the left like Barak Obama or Bernie Sanders or flawed black people like OJ, Kanye, and Cosby. The age of Trump is not really his style.
He also claims he doesn't like being as famous as he is now. I think he has always pretended he was talking to black people, not for black people. Since he has become famous, he's opened himself up to criticism even from the black community (which makes him uncomfortable). |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:53 PM Author: beckersted. interesting because i can't really imagine writing for the atlantic and thinking i was talking TO black people. i feel like that's explicitly "white people, let me tell you what it is." i guess it's like you said, he realized he was just pretending and had to cop a plea on it internally. at a certain point, having white people worship you becomes debasing because you know they worship you because in reality they think so little of your tribe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473180) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:11 AM Author: solace and wallace before his book he definitely had a following outside the traditional atlantic readership he was writing to. This was back when he allowed comments (with heavy moderation), and he would actively engage them. I remember he even had a book club.
He used to post stuff like this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/03/some-thoughts-on-naxxramas-warcraft/6835/
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:15 AM Author: beckersted. if he expended a ton more energy on cultural stuff like this that doesn't get coverage beyond meganerd blogs, i think he would be a much happier dude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473479) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:41 AM Author: radio zozo A good poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473724) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 2:00 AM Author: ><<(^((*> wtf a TNC dude poast that i agree with
is this from the Berenstein Bears timeline |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 2:08 AM Author: Giant Enemy Crab “interesting because i can't really imagine writing for the atlantic and thinking i was talking TO black people.”
Lmao yes |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:31 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon Theodore, why do Black people always demand that their interlocutors "explain" or "expand" or "expound." It's very aggressive and confrontational! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473364) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:58 PM Author: beckersted. i don't think it's agressive at all. it's a bort meme. EXPAND. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473428) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:10 AM Author: CapTTTainFalcon OK.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/401/tumblr_inline_mqrh26jIU11qz4rgp.jpg |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:27 AM Author: Pumonymous Sotomayor: "Can you simplify that? Can you simplify that?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473691) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:52 PM Author: \'\'\"\'\'\'\"\'\'\'\"\' If he was metooed, they'd let us know (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472928) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:58 PM Author: .,.,....,.,.,.,:,:,...,:::,....,:,.,.:...,:.::,. the hell they would. this guy is a literal shitlib deity. if he did something truly blameworthy they will protect to extent possible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472941) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:08 PM Author: beckersted. tell that to junot diaz, a brown guy who actually has real talent. they sold him down the river with the quickness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36472977) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:24 PM Author: \'\'\"\'\'\'\"\'\'\'\"\' lol can you imagine how junot felt getting got like that for pervy behavior (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473055) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:54 PM Author: beckersted. that's the thing. from what i can tell, he is guilty of being a bully, if anything.
my wife actually personally knows someone involved in this and, quote, "that bitch is fucking crazy. she was bragging about fucking him on her blog a couple of years ago. now she was assaulted? miss me with that." |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:24 PM Author: .,.,....,.,.,.,:,:,...,:::,....,:,.,.:...,:.::,. In May 2018 the author Zinzi Clemmons[6][7] and several more women publicly accused Díaz of sexual harassment and verbal abuse.[8][9][10] The issue sparked controversy in feminist circles regarding the way in which the race or ethnicity of the accused can change how such cases are publicly handled.[11] The author Rebecca Walker, along with a group of academics, protested what they called a resulting "media-harassment campaign" against Díaz.[12][13] He resigned as chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, but remained as a board member.[14] After an investigation by MIT, the university announced that it had found no evidence of wrongdoing.[15][16][17] Díaz later denied the allegations.[18][19][20]
This guy is no TNC, but even still it sounds like he made out a hell of a lot better than your typical dude w/o dat identity-based protective amulet. |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:56 PM Author: beckersted. DAT AMULET. lol
there was really no truth to the sexual assault allegations. As to the verbal abuse, 100% he did that shit. i met him once and i was basically like "you're mad aggy for 8 o'clock, my dude." like he was sitting at the bar just stewing mad waiting for the show to start. like mad at life. |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:19 PM Author: .,.,....,.,.,.,:,:,...,:::,....,:,.,.:...,:.::,. i'll cop to not knowing what i'm talking about and just copypastaing that para, but my main point was that if you're the wrong and esp person on the wrong side of the aisle (or any white dude that isn't somehow useful to the left), there's no investigation through which you even manage to get vindicated or half-rehabilitated
recall that #believethewomen is a completely mainstream position nowadays. who was willing to go public with any sympathy for mattressgirl dude, even after the chick was shown to be a complete lunatic, he was exonerated and Columbia paid him for ruining his shit? certainly no "group of academics". this junior guy prob somewhere in the middle of a hypothetically-accused TNC and mattressgirl dude |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:08 PM Author: Krampusnacht Diaz was almost certainly stripped of a Nobel Prize for allegations that have (so far) not panned out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473258) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 6:15 AM Author: dha tux ( ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473939) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:57 PM Author: Krampusnacht Coates is one of the most famous people in America today. The Atlantic is a declining magazine. Are we sure it's not Coates decamping from something he's outgrown? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473201) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:16 PM Author: Don Kihote lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473292) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:36 PM Author: Mark Wohlers You’ve got to be extremely out of touch to think he is one of the most famous people in America (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473377) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:37 PM Author: Krampusnacht do you dispute that he's probably the most famous person working for the Atlantic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473379) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:52 PM Author: .,.,....,.,.,.,:,:,...,:::,....,:,.,.:...,:.::,. TNC is one of the most famous people working at the atlantic
the atlantic is one of the most famous TTT in decline shitlib libshitrags in the country
ergo, by transitive property, TNC is one of the most famous people in the country |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:11 AM Author: beckersted. MAFFS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473467) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 6:16 AM Author: Fat Plodding Law Beaver (dracula who must show his cock) You are underestimating his fame. He has strong cachet among Millennials and he's very widely read among shitlibs. HIs writing is all over college syllabi. Go to an affluent or at least college educated shitlib couple's house and 50/50 you see his book on the shelf. He's a notable person and he's increasingly visible as you move up the rungs of important people. You have to at least feign familiarity and some reverence of his importance to be congruent, up to date, properly informed in even modestly intellectual shitlib circles. Obviously almost nobody actually reads this shit.
I'm not saying this from a shitlib perspective. I agree that he's mostly a self-conscious, bonehead mascot and a mediocre writer. But he is famous and influential. |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:17 PM Author: Don Kihote lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36475940) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 5:06 PM Author: .,.,....,.,.,.,:,:,...,:::,....,:,.,.:...,:.::,. RC? I was making fun of the initial claim that he's one of the most famous ppl in the COUNTRY, offered without qualification. he prob has less name recognition than the avg NBA role player. lavar ball, for example, is def more famous
narrowing the inquiry to "intellectual shitlib circles" misses the point |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:10 AM Author: sealclubber lol, there's moving the goalposts but this non sequitur is more like shifting from vintage comics to anal sex |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:05 PM Author: Fuming Yosemite Sam I have friends in editorial at that shit rag who, once you get a few drinks in them, have terrible things to say about TNC. I gather working with him lives down to XO’s expectations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473251) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:07 PM Author: \'\'\"\'\'\'\"\'\'\'\"\' what have they said about him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473254) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:24 PM Author: Such anathema to us! (as The Americans) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473335) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:00 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) Time to share stories, sir. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473952) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:38 AM Author: (-_-) (-_-) (-_-) (-_-) I met him several years ago when he was a lowly cub reporter bouncing from job to job. He was not a likable person. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473966) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 11:32 AM Author: ...,,..,,., Need DEETS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36474601) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:27 PM Author: Such anathema to us! (as The Americans) What were the things? XO is listening. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36475975) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:33 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon 184 of 240 people found the following review helpful
Between the Racist World and Ta Coates
By Alfonso Dupont on July 24, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don't agree? Then you're on the wrong side of history.
Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing poorly in academics because of racism, reading comic books, the racism of attractive white women he has asked out, what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months, cartoons, and the phenomenon known as "muhdik". Between the World and Me (a brilliant title that counterbalances the entire world with Ta Coates' genius) ranks with the Confessions of St. Augustine, if St. Augustine had done poorly in school and mostly just watched television and read comic books during his formative years. In fact St. Augustine is a rather trivial figure in Western history that you don't need to have heard of, he never even influenced society through highly praised magazine columns, and his books are very boring compared to reading about the adventures of men in colorful skin tight costumes.
During a long and rambling eighth chapter, Ta discusses his brave decision to disable comments on his blog. He shows how talking back to a highly paid media personality is an example of "punching down", employing a series of stories which usually involve noting that people who have promoted him are actually racist and did so only because they expected him to fail. There's also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checker.
As A.O.Scott has observed, Between Ta World and Me is "essential, like water or air", a truism you'd have to be a real hate-in-your-soul racist to deny. As a matter of fact, people who are too racist to read and enjoy this brilliantly spelled and grammar-checked volume are expected to die very soon because this book is literally essential, like water or air. An edition in which all of the book's passages are placed as dialogue between comic book heroes Black Lightning and Luke Cage is said to be in the works.
Like Ta's 14-year-old son, you may not be interested in reading through the many spelling and grammar corrected pages of this book, but even just having it on your bookshelf is important until the forthcoming graphic novel version arrives. How will they know you're not a racist otherwise? I personally enjoy reading it while enjoying water and air, two things that like this book are essential. Thus I give it the first star rating of excellence. |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:55 PM Author: Generation Chill (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473425) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:31 AM Author: Dr. Frasier Crane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473527) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:13 AM Author: dont run Clinton Epstein seeswhoops never mind lol (and icu) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473659) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:27 AM Author: Pumonymous (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473692) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:37 AM Author: pepito (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473963) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 8:19 AM Author: Squi Alfonso is an MPC troll account (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473992) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 11:58 PM Author: Pumonymous (Ta Coates) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36478618) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 8:47 AM Author: Harmon Killebrew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479582) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:16 PM Author: woke bogan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36475933) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:18 PM Author: tnsj (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36475944) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:32 AM Author: Deemed Not Qualified Objectively, TNC is SPS, but y'all are delusional if you think that has anything to do with this. In shitlib circles, he is widely considered to be the greatest "thinker" of our generation. It doesn't matter that this is complete bullshit that defies reality. This is how shitlibs feel, so it is true to them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473706) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 7:37 AM Author: (-_-) (-_-) (-_-) (-_-) He's had just ONE Atlantic article in the past FIVE MONTHS
See https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/
He probably got busy with his fame and other gigs , and his editors got tired of paying for a writer who doesn't produce. Same thing happened to Stephen A. Smith at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 10:06 AM Author: Straight Edge Revenge Fuck this yard ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36474139) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 10:09 AM Author: LJL at wagecucks (All poasts are performance art ) It's because he got BTFO by some college black kid. Ljl at every black genius never ascending past the topic of their "lived experience". Michelle Obama wrote her Princeton thesis on being a black woman at Princeton (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36474146) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 11:30 AM Author: sealclubber Black not black (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36474586) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:18 PM Author: Blink 182 NIGGER! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36475946) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 8:03 AM Author: Straight Edge Revenge He’s got serious gayface. I’d bet good money he’s a down low brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479504) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 9:07 AM Author: Proctolgia Fugax, M.D. This is near certain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479631) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 7:47 PM Author: Straight Edge Revenge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36483838) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 8:55 AM Author: .,,,..,,...,.,.,:,:,,...,::,...,:,...:..,:.::,. who gives a flying fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479602) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 9:03 AM Author: libcrusher180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479620) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 9:06 AM Author: Proctolgia Fugax, M.D. Hes dealing with debilitating depression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36479628) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 12:35 PM Author: beckersted. if that was the case, i wouldn't be surprised and i would feel bad for dude. he's one of those completely ALL IN with everything in the media. it's actually damn near impossible to NOT get mental illness consuming raw toxic sewage all day every day.
and it's very hard to escape. even going to the store and talking to the no one, the daily news headline is ALWAYS insane and MAF. that grinds on you after a while. turn it all off, gentlemen. |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 11:52 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36485236) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2018 12:37 PM Author: jonnyBlaze #MAGA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36480876) |