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Then Microsoft stopped trying to be Wilson Fisk with Windows 11 and just came out as Kingpin.

Epstein was the kind of villain that Wilson Fisk or Norman Osborn or Alexander Pierce are/were.

If anything, Sullivan's original article that criticizes Fisk shows that his facts are on the money, it's his stance on them that's problematic.

Rather than fisk your comment, I'm going to try and explain the positions as I see them.

I don't think most people are familiar enough with Fisk to give it any political connotations.

Looks like Fisk and Gould were relatively unaffected by it, the country at large suffered a great loss, and nobody was punished for it.

The term was coined exactly because Fisk produced a lot of content that resulted in well deserved debunking, not just one questionably racist article.

Cops in New York stop and fisk people of color.

Holy shit, as someone who worked a tiny bit on that campaign, never thought I would hear Fisk and Crawford mentioned on HN.

Wilson Fisk for example was known to the public and most authorities as a philanthropic New York City businessman known for his major donations that the city and its institutions.

Good example of how museums in general are struggling and desperate is that Fisk Art Museum was motioning to sell off the most prized parts of its collection to private buyers including Georgia O'Keefe works explicitly donated by her to keep there so that art is accessible to everyone - at a historically black college at that.

There are several good UK writers earning decent money via newspaper readers today - for example Alexander McCall Smith serialises fictional accounts of ordinary lives, Robert Fisk explores international injustice, Luke Johnson muses on small businesses and Jeremy Clarkson rails against what annoys him - and many others.

Anyone who thinks Lebanon will be stable any time soon should read Robert Fisk's "Pity the Nation."

Fisk's piece is criticized as "leftist pathology", and the opening of Fisk's article is described as "one of the defining quotes of the idiotic left".

A good book on this subject is "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East" by Robert Fisk.

Anyways, considering that Fisk is an unapologetic member of the far Left, and Sullivan an unapologetic member of the far Right, I'm not convinced that "fisking" is a credible criticism of Fisk himself.

The event itself and the facts surrounding it were not questioned - only Fisk's stance on it.

It reminded me quite a bit of Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation, which was also extremely long and dense with suffering.

Included rookie Fisk, Killebrew and Ryan, and an old Walter Johnson, Senators.