Comment: The following article is apparently fictional. The pseudonymous author claims he wrote it and submitted it to Quillette as 'bait'...
On Thursday, August 8, right-wing media outlet Quillette published a hit piece on the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that was allegedly written by a construction worker in Queens named Archie Carter, who expressed deep frustration with the "hipster comics and neurotic office workers" of the DSA. Carter's exposé , which played up the right-wing notion that the left is badly out of touch with blue-collar workers, quickly went viral. Problem: the article was a hoax and a fabrication. "Archie Carter" (described as a "Marxist-Leninist-Alinskyite" in the article, which ran with the headline "DSA Is Doomed") was a fictional character, and the 24-year-old Illinois resident who wrote it had deceived Quillette — which took the bait and was humiliated badly.What these clever cats fail to realize, however, is that the video of the Democratic Socialists of America's convention speaks for itself...
In an interview with Jacobin Magazine, "Carter" discusses his hoax and his reasons for baiting and brutally deceiving Quillette. "Carter," who describes himself as a "left-populist," set out to prove how gullible right-wing media outlets can be — and Quillette fell right into his trap by not even bothering to fact-check the article or verify that "Archie" (who claimed to be a New York Mets fan) was a real-life construction worker from Queens.
It soon became clear that I had not found a political home here. This was not the party of the working class I had expected — at least, that was my experience of the New York DSA and its various sub-chapters. Instead, its members and leadership seemed to be mostly NYU grad students, hipster comics, and neurotic office-workers. I became uncomfortable, then disenchanted, and then I just stopped going to DSA meetings altogether.
Comment: As with the 'mystery chemical incident' at Worthing Pier that sent 2 people to hospital just a few days ago in the UK, the cause behind the incident has yet to be explained by authorities.
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