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I think you're on tilt with this argument now. This is a personal essay. You disagree with some of its implications. That's fine. People disagree with each other. You should just write "I disagree with this", rather than try to critique it as formally bad journalism.
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I think you’re too stuck on the word “journalism” in my post, as if reclassifying something as not-journalism means it must not be critiqued.

If it helps, s/journalism/writing/g

If we’re not allowed to discuss posts in the comments, what are we even supposed to discuss here?


Your critical review of Hunter S Thompson must be a real banger.

Hunter S. Thompson was a journalist! It's just a category error to apply critiques of his work to someone's personal essay.



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