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• To his credit, Ta-nehisi Coates acknowledges his totalitarian tendencies in controlling "his" corner of the internet, but appears to be as fearful of the messiness of the democratic landscape as the NYPD were of the populist #Occupy movement. The NYC authorities used the excuse of public sanitation and safety to rid their streets of the unwashed rabble that is the very foundation of democracy and the free market of ideas. Coates uses a similar excuse (or rationalization) for cleaning up the unsanitized commentary to his blog.
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  Sunday January 01, 2012, 11:01 AM