More and more it seems like I’m seeing opinion columns being posted in the fediverse that are, to be fair, bad takes - but everyone seems to act like it’s representative of the entire publication. Which misses the entire point of opinion columns - they’re about providing different points of view, food for thought, if you will. Show you things outside of your bubble. The inevitable reality is that if you do that, you’re going to have some bad takes. If you don’t have some bad takes every once in a while, your opinion column is bad and you should feel bad.
Yeah, there are bad publications that try to distort reality. But you don’t identify them by picking out bad takes from their opinion columns.
If you post opinion columns with clearly genocidal opinions you are signaling you view that as a valid part of the discussion. You can’t post a bunch of “ethnic cleansing is good” “should women be working” on and on articles while refusing to post plenty of others and escape criticism.