Posted on 20 May 2020
It’s embarrassing enough for the New York Times’ Lisa Lerer, who covers "campaigns, elections and political power,” to publicly admit she has no idea what “red-pill” signifies. A reference was recently tweeted by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is fighting California’s coronavirus restrictions on business, and Lerer was on it. She turned over the descriptive responsibilities to colleague Taylor Lorenz, who gave her own crazed interpretation of the wide-spread right-wing meme: "The concept of being 'red pilled' has been widely...