Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous reply to someone comparing Black History Month to white power celebrations:
Black people: celebrating overcoming slavery and other historical injustices
Nazis: celebrating having white skin, and committing historical injustices
Idiots on the internet: “these are the same thing”
In second place, it’s mcinsand with some general thoughts on the concept of “woke”:
Please call BS if I’m wrong, but ‘woke’ looks to me like an effort to address our culturally-ingrained biases. The people upset with ‘woke’ look to me like they feel threatened that ‘woke’ might remove the biases that they enjoy.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a response from Samuel Abram to a complaint about Techdirt’s coverage of Elon Musk:
If you’re so upset at the writers of techdirt writing about Musk, then tell Musk not to generate headlines.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about Meta saying it won’t fight bad online child safety regulations:
Remember that phase of civil history where the telecoms and the state started sleeping with each other?
We’re watching it in real time with social media.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Thad, responding to a line in one of our posts in which we offered two possibilities for something going on at ExTwitter. It began “so, either Musk is learning” and Thad cut us off before the “or”:
Yeah, it’s not that one.
In second place, it’s an anonymous response to another commenter alleging we cover Musk to please our “easily riled up” audience:
I mean you are in here, day in, day out, bleating like a freshly castrated goat.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about our suggestion that every random Musk product idea doesn’t deserve an entire news cycle:
Nah. I’m eating popcorn yet again waiting for him to announce his own line of phones that are just an android clone and to watch even more of his workers ditch him because they can’t have their phones at work.
Finally, it’s Pixelation with a reaction to a former Politico owner’s anti-woke “Journalism Finishing School”:
That’s one way to finish journalism.
That’s all for this week, folks!