"Maybe if Bari Weiss was less racist she wouldn't have faced internal backlash at the NYT."
- Online left, soon.

Weiss' letter is an outline of the rot plaguing the press today. It won't fall on deaf ears, it'll fall on ears too cowardly to act.

I can't judge anyone choosing to leave an environment when I don't know how unfriendly it was to spend your day-to-day there.

But conservatives need to make an effort to stay in institutions as much as they can without surrendering them to the progressive left.

It's so hard to argue against cancel culture because it's premised on the infallibility of woke players identifying racism or problematic attitudes that require correcting.

It's pointless to argue about free speech when the argument isn't about free speech. The arg is that once a co-worker id'd something as racist it doesn't matter if you tweeted "All Lives Matter" or came to work wearing a KKK hoodie. There is racist and non-racist, nothing in btwn

The people who wanted Weiss out of the NYT don't see a problem of ideas and opinions. They think they're booting David Duke out of the office.

And everyone has to play along. No one on the left can suggest that someone can be mistaken in identifying racism or the entire Progressive house of cards comes down. This is why woke allies will also admit fault when accused of racism.

Cancel culture's power derives from its allies accepting unquestioningly that if someone accuses someone of racism that's the end of the investigation. There's no trial, the only question is what sentence should be.

So I don't know which prong to confront this problem with. Arguing in favor of a robust marketplace of ideas isn't working. Trying to counter-cancel pawns on the left isn't something productive or that I'd wish to do.