Presented without comment other than to say, think twice before taking Isaac Chotiner's call I guess

[inquiline@assemblag.es]

Presented without comment other than to say, think twice before taking Isaac Chotiner's call I guess

("Rationalizing the horrors of Israel's war in Gaza")
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/rationalizing-the-horrors-of-israels-war-in-gaza

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[trochee@dair-community.social]

@inquiline

I mean, bravo Chotiner for keeping his cool.

I would have been plunging through the zoom call to pop out the monitor on the other side, shake this guy by the lapels, and shout "what the f**k are you thinking?!"

[adrienne@social.treehouse.systems]

@trochee @inquiline Once you read enough Chotiner interviews, you get a sense of how often he is doing exactly that but in extremely, painfully polite language, tbh.

The man has a goddamn superpower.

[inquiline@assemblag.es]

@adrienne @trochee It's also clear the transcript words alone don't reflect the move where IC says something minor and polite but is in essence whispering, here's-some-rope

[adrienne@social.treehouse.systems]

@inquiline @trochee Yeah, that's exactly it!

[erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net]

@adrienne @inquiline @trochee god, reading that... It felt so much like he was interviewing the proverbial boiling frog

[adrienne@social.treehouse.systems]

@erincandescent @inquiline @trochee EVERY FUCKING TIME

I saw someone describe him the other day as "the Hannibal Lecter of interviewers" and i CACKLED. Just absolutely pinpoint accuracy at making people take out their entire ass and hang it all over the page.

[jdp23@blahaj.zone]

Yeah really. If I ever get a call from him asking to interview me, I'll say something like "uh ... Hon's not here right now, I'll let him know and maybe he'll get back to you:." And then I'll turn my phone off and bury it in the ground just in case.

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