Genius stuff here:
I’ve got to know Hari a bit over the past two years...
I was the first person in my family to go to a fancy university (the usual cred establishing I was the first person in my family to go to a university clearly not applying)
But this is totally unrelated to the things I did wrong journalistically,” he says quickly. “This is really important. I did those things before and during the use of this drug. So I want to make it clear that I’m not in any way attributing anything I did to that drug use. They are totally separate things. It's for you to conclude that i did.
My god, the new statesman flushed him out apparently.
Disassociation from actions:
The humiliation must have been toe-curling, but when I ask how he dealt with it, he says, “I just think that would be asking people to see it from my point of view.” Sympathy should be for the people he smeared online, for the Independent and its readers: “Not for me.”
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“It was incredibly humiliating, yes. It was absolutely devastating, and I fell apart. But I would not want to live in a culture where people could be horrible about other people under a pseudonym online, or act as if something someone had written had been said directly to you, and not pay a big price for it.”