{"id":402297,"date":"2019-04-01T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-language-policing-has-become-hysterical\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:04:17","slug":"twitter-language-policing-has-become-hysterical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-language-policing-has-become-hysterical\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Language Policing Has Become \u201cHysterical\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>American Psycho author says everyone needs to chill out<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>April 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/010419ellis1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In an interview with the New York Times, literary icon Bret Easton Ellis says language policing on Twitter has become \u201chysterical\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Psycho author Ellis, who identifies as a centrist liberal, has repeatedly enraged bi-coastal elites by refusing to get caught up in Trump Derangement Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>This extends to Twitter, where the writer of an upcoming non-fiction book called White slammed the echo chamber idiocy that dominates the social media sphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLately what\u2019s bothered me is the tweeting world, and how, since there\u2019s no context, no nuance, and since everyone\u2019s so hysterical, you are tagged things that you are not,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cThe language police is a hard thing to deal with if you are creative.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ellis wishes everyone would calm down and thinks that the news cycle should be treated as a source of entertainment rather than the end of the world.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>The man who previously sympathized with Kanye West\u2019s political awakening while decrying the Black Panther movie as a token \u201cdiversity push\u201d by Hollywood didn\u2019t vote for Trump, but says liberals obsessed with his every utterance need to not take politics too seriously and just enjoy life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in a good place in terms of truly not caring,\u201d said Ellis . \u201cIt\u2019s freedom, not worrying what people think of you. Not worrying about whether you\u2019re attractive. Not caring about the burdens of sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Reason, Ellis explained why he thought the demands of the global movie industry was beginning to make films anodyne and bland.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CeCOSuh0XBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBSCRIBE<\/strong> on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>Follow on Twitter: <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @PrisonPlanet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, April 1, 2019  at  1:06 pm<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/bret-easton-ellis-twitter-language-policing-has-become-hysterical.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Psycho author says everyone needs to chill out Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comApril 1, 2019 In an interview with the New York Times, literary icon Bret Easton Ellis says language policing on Twitter has become \u201chysterical\u201d. American Psycho author Ellis, who identifies as a centrist liberal, has repeatedly enraged bi-coastal elites by refusing to get caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}