Welsh - Journalist | May 10, 1967 -
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
Jon Ronson
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Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
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My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
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Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
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I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
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But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
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I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.
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I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
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I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
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