May 27th, 2014
In the course of discussing the Greatest Piece of Journalism Ever (the Ta-Nehisi Coates reparations opus, obviously) Rachel Lu notes, “Coates has a gift for affecting more nuance than he really offers.”
I can’t tell whether or not she’s being sarcastic, and I haven’t read the Coates piece. But I do remember what he wrote about Middlemarch: “I finished up Middlemarch two days ago, and had a good debate about it on Twitter.”
You’re probably thinking, Well, maybe he really did have a good debate about it on Twitter! Here are some of the highlights:
“I thought she was all ‘Gimme the loot, gimme the loot, gimme the loot.’ And she got it.”
“She has a total handle on language, but I just thought she couldn’t bring it all together, as you say.”
The first tweet was about Rosamond, the second is his final verdict on Eliot.
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I was looking forward to his Twitter deconstruction of Summa Theologica, but it was just one message: “TL:DR”.
Sam July 9, 2014 at 1:32 pm
Criticism of Coates, like criticism of Obama, is inherently racist. Probably misogynist and homophobic, too.