Opinion | Tom Cotton Duped The Times With His Op-Ed - The New York Times - 0 views
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Many flabbergasted legal experts quickly responded on Twitter, including the lawyer and journalist David French, who tweeted correctly that “a no quarter order is a war crime, prohibited even in actual insurrection since Abraham Lincoln’s signed the Lieber Code in 1863. Such an order is banned by international law and would, if carried out, be murder under American law.”
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Of course, Mr. Cotton tried to teargaslight Twitter with the assertion that it was not what he meant.“Definition of ‘no quarter’: If you say that someone was given no quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them.”
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for you digital civilians, it’s a classic Twitter feint to say you did not say what you did say. While it is always vexing to see, even more irritating was Mr. Cotton’s ability to remove the appalling digital troll costume he’d worn on Twitter and don a whitewashed version of it for The Times.Yes, I said whitewashed, which is why someone at the big and highly curated opinion platforms needs to figure out what to do about the many different opinions that appear all over the now impossibly fractured internet.
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Readers may miss a critical frame of reference when there are so many frames to choose from. And some public figure may take advantage of that, slipping in and out of frames like the portraits at Hogwarts, without being tagged for revolting behavior in one when moving to the next.
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Consider the master at this: President Trump. He has perfected a sick performative art form of playing the worst troll in Twitter’s history, even as he struts on the world stage with a flag backdrop and a White House podium playing a great leader.
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It reminds me of the groundbreaking idea in Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”: “The medium is the message.”
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That was 1964. So, let me update that for you to reflect the rage-baiting stylings of Mr. Trump and Mr. Cotton in 2020: The mediums are a mess. And that’s just the way they like it.