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Believe he got the absolute most mild-ass critique of needing to be more sensitive about people who aren’t cisgender straight white men awhile back and it absolutely broke his brain.
Lmao he's still mad about it
I remember his old magazine The Buffalo Beast had its chief editor go on an unhinged transphobic screed at least once in response to being asked to stop using slurs. I don't think Taibbi himself was directly involved in that, but that was who he'd hired to oversee and control that magazine. IIRC the same editor went on to be a gamergator and crypto scammer, so.
Corporate liberals absolutely were weaponizing feminism to force their critics out of any position of prominence. It seems like it was really effective because it broke their brains in the process.
Many such cases