POSTED OPINION PAGE FACEBOOK, RE: NEW YORK TIMES

Sent to the New York Times

I am a communist. What is time anyway. I cannot think of a time when I was allowed to daydream. The daydreaming is fine, but where does it get tethered to reality. It is very difficult to understand WHY the New York Times has a BLACKLIST. Let’s get real and get involved. Jouralists! How can you work for an institution that blacklists another journalists. I was almost shocked. But, now, I have seen everything. A paper that used to be our advocate, is putting writers it does not like, and does not necessarily agree with the New York Times, into deep freeze where new ideas are buried by the power of old men. Your people at the New York Times are no different than any other publication. It used to lead the way with vigor. I can assemble a bunch of links myself.

I hear you put us on a blacklist. Question: why do I need the New York Times when what the publication actually does has nothing to do with what the publication articulates. It is not the time for quiet. It is now a country of revenge. Now is the time to confront institutional control. The opinion folks of the New York Times do not want opinion. The voices in comments are generic and all of it sounds the same because people give them what they think the New York Times wants. All the news fit to print. Hardly. The writing/writer blacklist shuts us up. No one will hire us. No one will validate we exist. The New York Times insists it has the right to blacklist anyone it wants. Do not disagree with them or you will be fired. It is a private company. No. It. Is. Not. It confronts the same rules and regulations any other business inherits. They are not special. This is your great-grandfather’s newspaper. What I see is a backlash coming over manipulative policies at the New York Times. The blacklist only magnifies the arrogance and is patently absurd and beneath contempt.
I may have autism but I can write. Your own book reviews say that. Why would a company that has many disabled people employed, discriminate against writers with autism and not just one more academic who thinks they study us from afar. Your experts were wrong about Trump. Your expert who says we need more children is so wrong, it’s stunning. Your experts did not see Afghanistan coming. HIV was around for a long time before the New York Times thought it had value as a piece, and Hillary is not our president. What are you not telling us about Ukraine. Any institution that ritualizes censorship as a paradigm of journalism, is reaching for the past. But I am here to tell you that it’s not about the past. You cannot reconstruct time and place. Life is going to be more difficult than anyone knows. 
The blasklist is mean. Abusive, hateful. A blacklist is venom. Example: Writers have been saying for years, Facebook should be broken up. Anyone (like me) who challenges Facebook and the New York Times will find himself marginalized. Why does the New York Times Opinion page on Facebook sound exactly like Facebook. Daydreamers have the luxury to daydream. Some of us are barely able to survive. Some of us eat from dumpsters. It’s not a dream. It’s a nightmare. Existence is a nightmare. Comments is not like the rest of the paper. Are you people supervised by marketing. The New York Times is a nightmare. A blacklist is a nightmare, too. Daydream is a different country entirely. I think the meanness should be a public platform.
My book about riding my motorcycle riot to riot has you in there. I have asked Pam not to review it. You are the bad guys in the book. It would be a conflict of interest. Comment moderation drives the book because comment moderation (their tone is a major turnoff), can be entirely inappropriate. I am trying to find out if I can include the blacklist as part of the book. It might attract other papers who read my blog. A blacklist is self-defeating. Because it is a gag, particularly in my mouth.