Rolling Stone editor, Matt Taibbi, says the left has lost its mind

Taibbi is a pretty despicable person and a hard core leftist so when he says the left is nuts odds are he's right.

At Sustack Taibbi wrote that the left is a:

“cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness.”

He points out some examples to support his claim:

They’ve conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense, from a UCLA professor placed under investigation for reading Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” out loud to a data scientist fired* from a research firm for — get this — retweeting an academic study suggesting nonviolent protests may be more politically effective than violent ones!

Pretty compelling; any group that says that reading the Rev. Martin Luther King's writings is racist hatred is sick and evil.

His real concern however are the purges occurring in left wing media because some leftist activists are getting purged.

Now, this madness is coming for journalism. Beginning on Friday, June 5th, a series of controversies rocked the media. By my count, at least eight news organizations dealt with internal uprisings (it was likely more). Most involved groups of reporters and staffers demanding the firing or reprimand of colleagues who’d made politically “problematic” editorial or social media decisions.

The New York Times, the Intercept, Vox, the Philadelphia Inquirier, Variety,and others saw challenges to management.

Probably the most disturbing story involved Intercept writer Lee Fang, one of a fast-shrinking number of young reporters actually skilled in investigative journalism. Fang’s work in the area of campaign finance especially has led to concrete impact, including a record fine to a conservative Super PAC: few young reporters have done more to combat corruption.

So next time that someone tells you about how the left is anything other than a tyrannical group of would be tyrants tell them to take it up with Taibbi.