I trolled Anil Dash on Friday after he fretted about journalists calling the New Republic purge a “massacre” and other tropes that suggest “violence.” Here’s what he, uh, learned from the experience:
I was trying to understand why a Daily Caller editor told me to delete my Twitter account after I criticized hyperbolic reactions about @TNR
— Anil Dash (@anildash) December 5, 2014
And I realized that to folks running these outlets, to admit that *any* of them are irrelevant to most people is to admit they *all* are.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) December 5, 2014
Doesn’t mean they can’t do good work, or that they don’t contribute to the conversation. Just that they’re not the center of the world.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) December 5, 2014
He must not know the Daily Caller very well.