Terrifying watching the & #39;woke& #39; justify the apparent vicious workplace bullying of Bari Weiss because she had the & #39;wrong& #39; opinions. It never occurs to them the precedent it sets to deem people unworthy of human rights because of their views. Re-education camps nearly always follow
Bari is accused of being - double gasp - a centrist & conservative, of not holding the & #39;correct& #39; inclusive views. As if correctness is self-evident. A rational society that values liberal democracy is able to debate ideas. It seems we no longer live in one https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter">https://www.bariweiss.com/resignati...
I& #39;ve read a few of Weiss& #39; pieces, some I agreed with, some I didn& #39;t. That& #39;s the power of opinion. You mull it over, test it, see how it stands up. Removing those ideas from @nytimes doesn& #39;t strengthen it, it makes it weak & brittle. The bullies have won, but journalism lost.
You can think Bari Weiss& #39; ideas are wrong. You can think she& #39;s not a very nice person. But guess what, you argue those ideas or you ignore them/her entirely. What you don& #39;t do is gang up like a bunch of schoolkids to use work social media channels to bully her.
This Left is trash
One of Bari Weiss& #39; main & #39;sins& #39; is to be a hypocrite because she campaigned as a Columbia uni undergraduate against what she, and many other Jewish students, felt was an intimidating antisemitic atmosphere preventing their free speech. She wanted to & #39;cancel& #39; others apparently...
Going on this contemporaneous article and not The Intercept& #39;s Assad vile apologist Glen Greenwald& #39;s hatchet job, the professors involved *admit* to what would likely be intimidating behaviour for students reliant on them for good grades.

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From this very example meant to gotcha Weiss, it& #39;s actually clear that her Woke detractors think speech that harms, bullies & intimidates people is absolutely *fine* if it& #39;s directed at people with these allegedly & #39;wrong& #39; opinions.

There *is* hypocrisy here but it ain& #39;t Weiss.
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