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Old 07-15-2020, 12:30 PM   #1729
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The people who seem to think that the issue here is the personal, individual victimization of the person who's blowing the whistle have so utterly missed the boat it's hard to know whether to take them seriously. Bari Weiss could go on to sign a lucrative book deal or never be heard from again, and it wouldn't change the importance of the actual issue, which is the culture within the NYT and similar outlets. It's simply easier to take shots at her personally in the hopes that that will distract from the point, which is, as noted, the reason for the immediate resort to character assassination.

As far as the Harpers' letter goes, it's hilarious that anyone had any problem with it. That thing was the most milquetoast, uncontroversial statement of principles that anyone could possibly have come up with.

Just such dangerous stuff. Clearly, this must be stopped.
She clearly resigned like that to generate news and start some kind of podcast or platform .
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