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Stop lying, Taylor Lorenz

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Stop lying, Taylor Lorenz

Taylor Lorenz is a compulsive liar. She’s a worst liar than most. A clever liar will maintain a consistent story within the same conversation. But Taylor Lorenz will literally contradict herself within moments.


Why am I exposing Taylor? Remember what Malcolm X said:


“The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the smiling fox.”


Taylor Lorenz has a history of legitimizing far right fascist bigots in the mainstream media. She’s a regular Washington Post columnist. The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who in recent times is the second wealthiest person on Earth, second only to Elon Musk. I don’t think Lorenz is a billionaire, but internet research reveals that she was likely born into a multimillionaire family and she tries to hide it. That makes sense, because anyone who has ever worked in journalism knows that you cannot survive financially as a journalist unless you come from inherited wealth. “Trust Fund Baby with a Washington Post/New York Times/Globe and Mail column” is a real life trope. Very few of those people started from the bottom.


Taylor Lorenz (born October 21, c. 1984[a]) is an American journalist. She is a columnist for The Washington Post. She was previously a technology reporter for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider, and social media editor for the Daily Mail. She is particularly known for covering Internet culture. Early life and education  Lorenz was born in New York City[1][a] and grew up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, attending nearby Greenwich High School.[6] She attended college at the University of Colorado Boulder and later transferred to Hobart and William Smith College where she graduated with a degree in political science.[7][8] Lorenz has stated that the social media site Tumblr caused her to become interested in Internet culture.[9]


< NevilleTheCat @FearTheFloof. 4h   For the record this all publicly available information, it's just hard to find without looking.   Taylor Lorenz was born to mega rich developer Walter R. Lorenz (65) and Anne Lorenz (67) & raised in a $5.7 million dollar mansion. Her sister is Brook Lorenz of CNN.   NevilleTheCat   hoof 4   But it's her uncle that's the big story here. You see Taylor Lorenz's mom and uncle were mega rich children of a very powerful politician... and R. McDonald (her uncle) is the owner / founder of the WayBackMachine internet archive.


Taylor Lorenz has used her enviable media soapbox to provide free advertising to “Libs of TikTok”’s Chaya Raichik. And my trans friends tell me that Taylor’s recent interview of Chaya has endangered trans people even further. Chaya Raichik likely wouldn’t be famous if it weren’t for Taylor’s “reporting.”


So Taylor Lorenz is a worthy target of an exposé, and I am definitely punching up.


Taylor fancies herself an expert on internet culture. So I will expose her in that style, with tons of social media screenshots as evidence.


In the first section, I will expose where she has contradicted herself within mere moments! Like, if you’re going to be a compulsive liar with no real morals, values, or worldview, at least be clever about it?


In the second section, I will expose some of Taylor’s happy smiling photos with far right charlatans. I personally would never smile in a photo with any of those scumbags. Nor would I interview them. I would punch them hard in the face and get arrested with assault charges. Which I why would never attend an event where any of those fuckers are present.


In the third section, I will show screenshots of wisdom from academics (including people of colour and other marginalized groups) and thoughtful people who explain why interviewing a fascist only strengthens fascism.


I must thank people on Bluesky for helping me with my research. So, let’s get started!


Taylor Lorenz is one of the worst liars in the world

This is just a really pathetic self-contradiction.

logan, hater club CEO @logan.ha.... 9h  Maybe your schooling is the fucking problem  Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.b.... 9h I wish I could send this entire app to journalism school  Q1  170  1  Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.... 9h  I didn't go to journalism school, but I understand how reporting works


I’m part of the Covid cautious community. I’m legitimately Covid cautious. (Ask some of us, there are lots of fake Covid cautious people who don’t take it seriously.) I wear my respirator at all times in public. Not to “virtue signal.” Because I know Covid causes brain damage and permanent immune damage. I know if I breathe any unfiltered air in public, I could be infected. I have completely avoided Covid, unlike 99% of the population. Because I genuinely stay home as much as possible and I genuinely wear my respirator every single second I’m away from home. I don’t want to go down in the plague like the majority of people have decided to accept.


(I keep a huge collection of medical studies and scientific research as PDFs in my pubic Google Drive if you question me about any of this. Check it out: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h1GWOB9Uz_tpikuP45IqiCriYc3azUF7?usp=sharing )

I used to believe Taylor was Covid cautious. She has done a few red carpets in a mask. But when I saw this last November, Taylor lost my support. I can’t stand hypocrisy.

Taylor Lorenz. 50m  @taylorlorenz.bsky.social  I totally 100% agree, that's why I don't ever share unmasked pics. Providing appropriate context is almost impossible & they'll always be weaponized by the worst ppl. I can count on my hands the number of times I've been around others unmasked in the past 3 yrs. Most days I don't even leave my room

Kim Crawley (she/her) 4m  @crowgirl.bsky.social  You don't share unmasked pics. But you, a supposed social media expert, don't realize that pics will be shared? This isn't a candid photo. You're well aware you're being photographed here.


My respirator wearing is primarily because I don’t want to suffer the permanent consequences of inhaling a level three biohazard. But secondarily, those of us who wear respirators in public are subject to abuse, simply because we don’t want to succumb to the plague like most of you fools. We would be safer if more mask wearers were in public. And more people would mask if they didn’t think they’d look like outcasts. (Why you would prioritize avoiding peer pressure over avoiding brain damage and heart attacks is beyond me.)


Taylor has a lot of power in the media and if she wore a goddamn respirator for her big indoor book parties, she would be protecting her health and setting a good example for other people to protect their health.

But nothing is serious to her. She’s a Trust Fund Baby, she’s never had to deal with real problems or fight for survival.

“Let’s just completely change my worldview according to who I’m speaking to at the time!”

Br/facepalm  u/liberty4now. 1y  Join  Taylor Lorenz vs. Taylor Lorenz  MISC  Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz  Replying to @TaylorLorenz and @antoniogm  before u google, I went to a small private Swiss boarding school tuition is $90k. Being surrounded by privilege only highlighted the immense disparity between what I grew up w/ and what others didn't. It's why it's so important to understand personal experiences are not universal  2:09 PM Mar 9, 2020  Twitter for iPhone  Taylor Lorenz  @TaylorLorenz  I went to public school my entire life aside from a short study abroad semester program for U.S. students that in zero ways cost $90k lol. I have zero family in CT. You people just make up fan fiction about my life  15:53  87  12/14/22 Twitter for iPhone

Sivabhaskar 3y  Taylor Lorenz is an attention seeking piece of shit, who always plays the victim card when confronted of her hypocrisy. In July 2020, she wrote a shitty article in NYT about the black & white selfies that women across the U.S were posting on Instagram with the tag #ChallengeAccepted. She bashed all of them in this whiny article, abusing them of being idiots. This tag though, was reused the first time in 2020 (it was done in 2016 for cancer awareness) by women in Turkey, as a way of standing up against genocide of women (474 women killed in 2019 alone) in their country.  But as always, the ignorant Taylor underplayed their cause in her story, and also ridiculed the women who used the tag in the U.S.  As expected, the Turkish women shot back at Taylor, letting her psychopathic brain know, that no one owns a hashtag forever, and that they reused the trend in 2020 to make the world aware of their country's female genocide.  But the moron that is Taylor wouldn't budge. She posted about 20 more tweets, for her selfish purposes of undermining the Turkish women's cause, defending her ignorant and idiotic article, and then to repeatedly retweet links to her article.
r/OutOfTheLoop  40  71 Comments  :  ccarl2019 2y  Answer: People have a lot of issues with Taylor Lorenz so she does receive a lot of criticism, which could turn into harassment. However, she never apologizes or addresses the criticism, just blocks people and will make her account private for a couple of days.  Recently, she falsely accused a man she seems to hate of saying the "r-slur" on Clubhouse. In reality some other man said it (in the context of referring to what people on some subreddit call themselves?). But she tweeted that this other man said it, and that no one cared but her!!! Never apologized, did kind of acknowledge that she was mistaken, but still found a way to make herself the victim. https://twitter.com /Jason/status/1358322872033320961?s=20  People were critical of her when she shared Claudia Conway's (15 year old daughter of Kellyanne) tiktok account with her 200,000+ followers, which led to Claudia trending on twitter, being featured on news programs around the country, and having to deal with an already tumultuous relationship with her likely further enraged mother. https://twitter.com /Tiana TheFirst/status/1297901145600536578  She's also friendly with and defensive of notorious instagram scammer Caroline Calloway. When Caroline's critics have criticized Taylor for that, she has accused them of having mental illness (in tweets to all of her followers) and blocked them. https://twitter.com /AbbyZinger/status/1369524622907961346?s=20

Even Taylor’s age is a bit controversial on her Wikipedia entry, because she has a history of lying about it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Lorenz#cite_note-Birthday-1 )

Taylor Lorenz isn’t a hard hitting journalist exposing fascists. She’s friends with them!

Taylor friends with a right wing conspiracy nut  ...  s... 2m  Q1  1  Kim Crawley (she/her) @crowgi... 1m  Oh! Who is that in the photo?  Q1  ...  ...  michelledozois. 57s  @michelledios.bsky.social  Robby stove he hosts the right wing show on hill.com

Taylor lorenz interviewed milo Yiannopoulos for some reason

"Taylor with pharma bro"

Would add she went on zionist conspiracy nut Aliza Licht podcast  10:19XX1  20%  ...  50  INFLUENCERS ARE NOT  alizalichtxo and leaveyourmarkpodcast

sarah hagi  18%  @KindaHagi  taylor lorenz loves interacting with right wing people so much that she has any black woman whos criticized her blocked but engages in dialogue with any racist who pays attention to her  8:03 PM 24 Feb 24-32.9K Views  33 Reposts  3 Quotes  414 Likes  30 Bookmarks  口  Who can reply?  Accounts @KindaHagi follows or mentioned can reply.  NAACP AWARD NOMINEE Camryn...  1d  Replying to @KindaHagi  i didn't even say anything to her Imaoooo


Donald Trump is proof why giving fascists media attention only makes them more powerful


Jude Ellison Superbo.... 9h  @judedoyle.bsky.social  This is why it matters. Zitron seems like a nice fellow, but this is EXTREMELY gross. Someone literally did die here, and it wasn't a cis journalist. Lorenz has managed to make the story all about herself and how Brave she is. It's erecting a billboard with your own face on it over a child's grave.  Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social. 16m  Thinking about Taylor Lorenz, however she pulled this off, the personal risk of making yourself the front and centre of the right's hate campaign so conspicuously is genuinely courageous. The cost of making this story happen is pointing an army of hate at you. Doubt many of us could handle it.

Here are some more citations. Because the truth is that by platforming fascists, you make them more popular.

How Donald Trump used the media and the ‘industry of outrage’ to win the US presidency

Denis Muller

Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

https://theconversation.com/how-donald-trump-used-the-media-and-the-industry-of-outrage-to-win-the-us-presidency-68496


Why ‘no platform’ still matters

Evan Smith

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/authoritarianism-far-right/why-no-platform-still-matters/


Oh, but you know what Taylor did do? She named and identified a 17 year old transgender kid. Who will now face violence because Taylor named them in a mass media outlet.

state," McAfee said. "From what we've heard jam from students, it's really changed how other students treat them. Students who didn't have any trouble being openly trans or nonbinary OTT, gre before are now being bullied by class members who are repeating rhetoric that they're hearing the artic from public officials in the state."  xperts i  the inte  + Follow  heuters  ⚫last time Evan a trans student at High this roll School, said he carries a bulletproof backpack, trans ok along with books to use in self-defense. "I'm quite honestly scared to go to school every day," said 17, adding: "I have been bullied by people that watch Libs of TikTok."  10/10  The atmosphere, he said, makes it almost impossible to get an education.


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P.S.

Matthew Francis just published his own take on how Taylor Lorenz empowers transphobes:

What Do Journalists Owe Our Communities

https://buttondown.email/BowlerHatScience/archive/what-do-journalists-owe-our-communities/


It’s good to see I’m not the only cis person who’s allying with trans people.

Kim Crawley, buttondown.email/Crowgirl, @crowgirl.bsky.social, @crowgirl@hachyderm.io, linktr.ee/kimcrawley

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