Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Yes, although she is complaining that the interview has been heavily edited and presented in a way that's designed to give an impression of mumbling incoherence. There's a certain obvious truth to that: it's an editorial choice to leave in the "ums" and sentence fragments and other features of off the cuff spoken communication. If you want someone to look good, you clean that up for print. If you want to make them look addled or stupid you emphasise them. And that works on almost everyone, because very few people can speak in fully formed paragraphs, without making filler sounds, without abruptly changing direction occasionally in the middle of a sentence and so on.
That said, the core issue with the interview isn't the hostile way in which her speech patterns are reported, but the apparent incoherence of her underlying politics. She does seem more radical than her fellow "feminist of color" twitter saint Mikki Kendall, but then again people were defending Kendall's radicalism right up until she explicitly pointed out that she doesn't have a radical political outlook during her hail to the NSA, #solidarityisfordroneoperators meltdown. I would actually be interested in hearing what Park's wider political outlook is in a less hostilely presented and more thorough interview.
Laurie Penny @PennyRed 1h
