Not content to “give truthers a chance,” Salon completed its descent into moral bankruptcy Thursday when it republished a despicable Jacobin magazine piece with the title “Understanding Christopher Dorner.”
"Christopher Dorner is a wholesale product of a society gone mad on racism and war…" http://t.co/lr0f3K8t via @jacobinmag
— Salon (@Salon) February 15, 2013
Unlike many Dorner cheerleaders, Salon didn’t call cop-killer Christopher Dorner a “modern day Django” or the new Nat Turner. Instead, he’s excused as the “product of a society gone mad on racism and war.” The author laments that Dorner’s mainfesto “will be dismissed as the rantings of a lunatic.” Oh, and he’s Jack Bauer and John Wayne rolled into one awesome truth-telling whistle-blowing package. If you can stomach it, here’s a taste:
Dorner’s reaction is partly rooted in a corrosive version of American masculinity — his response to institutional corruption is uniquely Jack Bauer and John Wayne. Gratuitous violence included. Dorner is a wholesale product of a society gone mad on racism and war, of a state that aggressively punishes dissent, of an intellectual milieu where telling the truth has become a dangerous act. There was no internal institutional outlet for him to address injustices against him: the blue line prevented that.
On behalf of the families of the Dorner victims and all decent human beings, go f*ck yourself @Salon and @jacobinmag! #Despicable
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) February 15, 2013
Imagine being a family member of one of the #Dorner victims and here comes @salon to tell you that he was making a valid point…
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) February 15, 2013
Pipe down, Dorner hater. You just can’t fathom the edgy depths of the Salon editorial team. Neither can any person with an ounce of decency.
Salon wrote up a story titled “Understanding Christopher Dorner”. He was a liberal, so the four people he murdered was a misunderstanding?
— Master Mirror (@Aurvant) February 15, 2013
“a lack of institutional self-reflection in the aftermath of Rodney King” makes Dorners rampage ok…@salon #tcot http://t.co/6Dw7VrZ6
— the punditocracy (@punditOcrat) February 15, 2013
Understanding Christopher Dorner http://t.co/U6vDY1wT Shorter @Salon: "Gee, Officer Krupke"
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) February 15, 2013
"Understanding Chris Dorner" in http://t.co/a6Pm7zLa these crazy moonbats have no shame.. http://t.co/KtVAGqpO
— AngryRichRadio (@AngryRichRadio) February 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/302404397055492096
https://twitter.com/TomMaherNY/status/302428679781351424
When you compare Christopher #Dorner to Jack Bauer and John Wayne, you deserve ridicule worthy of Holocaust deniers. http://t.co/Mr3amXif
— Jarrett Skorup (@JarrettSkorup) February 15, 2013
http://twitter.com/BecketAdams/statuses/302422642298871809
http://twitter.com/BecketAdams/statuses/302422820489682946
http://twitter.com/BecketAdams/statuses/302423175000645633
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http://twitter.com/BecketAdams/statuses/302426569136287746
Salon’s editors should be ashamed. But when they published a love letter to trutherism, the piece quickly disappeared down the memory hole. Despite significant backlash, Matthew Cunningham-Cook’s ode to Dorner is still online.
Can we stop pretending Salon is a serious site, or must the charade continue?
Understanding Christopher Dorner http://t.co/ilONlWXR— Yali Elkin (@yalielkin) February 15, 2013
Way ahead of you.
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