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Washington Post in-house spat shows we’ve gone overboard with therapeutic ‘me’ culture
The College Fix ^ | 11 June 2022 | Dave Huber

Posted on 06/12/2022 3:04:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan

This past week’s Twitter spat featuring several Washington Post employees was a gold mine into the mindset of the ultra-therapeutic “me” culture which is often cultivated in our universities.

In a nutshell, after Post reporter Felicia Somnez publicly ripped her employer for allowing fellow reporter Dave Weigel to allegedly get away with retweeting a “sexist” tweet, the paper ended up suspending Weigel for a month without pay.

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ut the coup de grâce, so to speak, came when a Post software engineer named Holden Foreman (pictured) chimed in via a lengthy Twitter thread to defend Somnez (and in other tweets, Lorenz) even though a reasonably rational person could see they were clearly in the wrong.

Foreman looks like he could be a high school freshman; indeed, just last year he was a student at Stanford University. And last August, he took to the student paper Stanford Daily (which has a predilection for publishing piddly student complaints) to rip the university for not catering to (no pun intended) his “disordered eating.”

Complete with a trigger warning (“This column contains references to disordered eating”), Foreman’s piece noted that his alleged malady — “a compulsion to eat less than needed when [in] either in social settings or when [one has] trouble estimating the amount of food [they’re] consuming” — still remains undiagnosed.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: davehuber; daveweigel; districtofcolumbia; feliciasomnez; jeffbezos; twitter; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
A culture this dysfunctional cannot and does not deserve to... survive.
1 posted on 06/12/2022 3:04:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Disordered eating?! WTF?!
2 posted on 06/12/2022 3:05:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rummyfan

Stanford graduate can’t figure out how to feed himself...


3 posted on 06/12/2022 3:05:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rummyfan

In my clueless young years, I actually thought our media had intelligent folks contained within. Silly me.


4 posted on 06/12/2022 3:06:52 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

I think the schools of journalism are right down there on the bottom with the schools of education and gender studies.


5 posted on 06/12/2022 3:09:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rummyfan

OMG on so many axes.


6 posted on 06/12/2022 3:18:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

Collectivism stops maturation at age twelve.


7 posted on 06/12/2022 3:24:43 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Rummyfan

Privileged good looking white boy found a way to join the victim class.


8 posted on 06/12/2022 3:26:05 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Rummyfan
washington-post-02
9 posted on 06/12/2022 3:26:51 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

LOL!


10 posted on 06/12/2022 3:32:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Neither one of them is a journalist.

11 posted on 06/12/2022 3:41:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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The only consolation is that when the zombie apocalypse happens, entities like this will not last long.

They won’t even begin to have a clue how to survive for real.


12 posted on 06/12/2022 5:26:09 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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