Quillette hoaxed into publishing false anti-DSA hit piece

[TurkeysGhost]

Quillette, the conservative opinion magazine which sees itself as a member of the "intellectual dark web" not afraid to apply facts and reason to taboo political topics, got duped by an obvious hoax.

Quillette published an interview with a man claiming to be a blue-collar DSA member frustrated with effete, SJW leadership within the organization. The article was full of red meat for the anti progressive crowd. It was also full of little details that were obviously false if even the slightest bit of editorial review took place.

The internet starting picking apart this story right as it was published, and the article was pulled after a few hours. The hoaxster later gleefully admitted punking the magazine and everyone is having a good laugh.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/quillette-duped-by-left-wing-hoaxer-posing-as-communist-construction-worker?ref=author

Seems that many radical conservative "intellectuals" these like to cloak their views as the only rational and reasoned interpretation of the facts. Nice to see this charade absolutely collapse and Quillette get exposed for the hack-job it is.

 

[Trebuchet]

What's DSA?

 

[Mike!]

What's DSA?

Deep State Administration, of course.

 

[newyorkguy]

Better you should ask "What is Quillette?" Answer: The right-wing source for many of the "arguments" you see (re)posted here by the usual suspects.

 

[Whip]

Deep State Administration, of course.

Direct Selling Association. cue the amega wand! it will fix everything. just ask clem.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I've never heard of Quillette before. It sounds like a make of toilet paper. "Charmin's Quillette is elegant enough for the fanciest bathroom but tough enough for the harshest butthole!" I sometimes think I should work in advertising.

 

[I Am The Scum]

I've never heard of Quillette before. It sounds like a make of toilet paper.

Still too generous

 

[ArchSas]

Somehow, I'm not surprised at all. The schadenfreude is real.

 

[Brainster]

As far as I can see the big hoax is that the guy claimed to be a socialist nobody turned off by his fellow latte liberals when actually he was a different socialist nobody who doesn't mind latte liberals. Or something.

 

[chrispy]

I've never heard of Quillette before. It sounds like a make of toilet paper. "Charmin's Quillette is elegant enough for the fanciest bathroom but tough enough for the harshest butthole!" I sometimes think I should work in advertising.

Ah, TM, you never disappoint.

 

[carlitos]

What's DSA?

Democratic Socialists of America

Don't worry - most people haven't heard of them, either.

 

[Mumbles]

Still too generous

Oh c’mon now, they’re today’s leading publication for research into phrenology.

 

[dann]

In a documentary about the so-called dissidents in Cuba (the Cubans usually call them mercenaries), a journalist, who has led contra-revolutionaries in Miami to believe that he is a 'dissident,' demonstrates how easy it is to make Miami broadcasters bring fake news about Cuba. He calls them on his cellphone from Havana, and that same afternoon his piece of fake news is being broadcast on the radion in Miami.

One of the many things that nobody has heard about.

The scene is towards the end of one of these two documentaries about terrorism against Cuba:
Bernie Dwyer: Mission against Terror
Saul Landau: Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand up
I don't remember which one.

 

[Cain]

Gullible leftists believe this tripe? There's no evidence Quillette ever ran such a story. This is all an elaborate hoax about a "hoax." Hipster douchebags would probably call it a "meta" hoax.

 

[IsThisTheLife]

The Daily Beast? You're kidding. Why would you accept that ****** little organ's word about anything?

 

[catsmate]

As far as I can see the big hoax is that the guy claimed to be a socialist nobody turned off by his fellow latte liberals when actually he was a different socialist nobody who doesn't mind latte liberals. Or something.

Really? I would have thought that the oft-cited intellectual hub of the alt-right was incapable of basic fact checking would be important, but hey...

 

[catsmate]

Oh c’mon now, they’re today’s leading publication for research into phrenology.

Ah yes, who could forget BoJo's Germanic forehead. We must try...

They're also the main hub for HBD, the new facade for "race realism" aka brown people are inferior.

 

[catsmate]

The Daily Beast? You're kidding. Why would you accept that s****y little organ's word about anything?

Awww...
So any complaints about the accuracy of the story?

 

[IsThisTheLife]

Awww...
So any complaints about the accuracy of the story?

Almost as a matter of principle I stopped paying attention to, by which I mean completely stopped reading, anything on the Daily Beast several years ago. By that time it had proved itself to be one of the most venal, dishonest, clickbait-ridden websites in existence.

 

[carlitos]

Awww...
So any complaints about the accuracy of the story?

Almost as a matter of principle I stopped paying attention to, by which I mean completely stopped reading, anything on the Daily Beast several years ago. By that time it had proved itself to be one of the most venal, dishonest, clickbait-ridden websites in existence. No.

FTFY

There is a wayback machine cache of the article as it appeared on Quillette here - https://web.archive.org/web/20190808170736/https://quillette.com/2019/08/08/dsa-is-doomed/ . So if the Daily Beast made up the story, they were also clever enough to hack it onto the quillette servers.