The exact moment that Jason Whitlock stopped mattering

He is not even a little right.

I have a problem with the entire genre of “Can someone explain why people who aren’t me sometimes have thoughts, opinions or choices that are different from mine?” Like anything that isn’t exactly what you would do requires justification.

 

Dr. King's daughter gets at it this way:




and again, from that Reali thread:

Compassion means ‘to suffer with’. When something tragic happens to someone else sometimes we say, “I can’t imagine...” There’s value in other people talking & showing us what this grief is - so we can imagine - and be helped. So we encourage & help the next with compassion.

 

Seems very pro-life of her to share. I would think Whitlock would appreciate the value she placed on her child.

 

He's not. He doesn't get to decide how she should grieve.

 

He's not telling her how to grieve.

He's confounded by their decision.

 

The only reason to be confounded by their decision is that you've somehow reached an age where you are nominally an adult but have somehow managed to perform some Barry Sanders-esque jukes and dodges to escape the entire concept that other people exist, are not you, and may prefer different things than you.

And he's a goddamned journalist, at least nominally. A profession that has its entire code of ethics pinned around the idea that people want their stories told, even in moments of grief or trauma.

 

What Rick and Moddy said.

Also, the idea that "he's only asking the question" doesn't apply to Whitlock anymore. He's never just asking a question. He already has what he thinks is the answer.

 

That's exactly it. He's fishing for your justification so he can blow it apart in one of his shitty columns.

In other words you're doing half the work for him.

 

A subsequent tweet indicated he found the grieving post insincere.

I don’t get the point of going after Teigen’s tweet.

 

Whitlock finding something insincere is unintentional irony in its highest form.

 

Because he's a dick and that's what he does. Nothing more.