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No one fears the wrath of Trump supporters. They fear the illiberal left.


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2021 Mar 8, 8:47pm   556 views  16 comments

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9331695/Bari-Weiss-says-Americans-self-silencing-fear-publicly-shamed-canceled.html


Former New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss says Americans are being silenced for fear of being publicly shamed or canceled. ...

'Today's taboos...are often fringe ideas pushed by a zealous cabal trying to redefine what is acceptable and what should be shunned,' Weiss wrote.

'It is a group that has control of nearly all of the institutions that produce American cultural and intellectual life: media, to be sure, but also higher education, museums, publishing houses, marketing and advertising outfits, Hollywood, K-12 education, technology companies and, increasingly, corporate human resource departments.' ...

'I know because I live in blue America, in a world awash in NPR tote bags and front lawn signs proclaiming the social justice bonafides of the family inside.

'In my America, the people who keep quiet don't fear the wrath of Trump supporters. They fear the illiberal left.'

Weiss said she began to hear from people complaining about being silenced on almost daily basis after leaving The New York Times.

In her resignation letter, she said the paper did not support her when she was bullied by her colleagues. ...

She also shared two emails she received from others bemoaning self-censorship.

One young journalist wrote that she was 'practicing self-censorship' when pitching to editors.

'For woke-skeptical young writers, banishment and rejection awaits if you attempt to depart, even in minor ways, from the sacred ideology of wokeness.'

Another email, from a student a law school, wrote an email to Weiss from his personal email because he was afraid of doing so from his work email. ...

The writer also accuse this new movement of 'tearing down' others through 'public shaming', 'punishment', 'vengeance' and 'conformity' with no forgiveness or mercy.

'According to the new illiberalism, the past cannot be understood on its own terms, but must be judged through the morals and mores of the present.' she writes, as she blasts the cancelation of historical authors and the tearing down of statues of Presidents Lincoln and Washington.

'In this ideology, if you do not tweet the right tweet or share the right slogan or post the right motto and visual on Instagram, your whole life can be ruined,' Weiss also claims, citing examples of people being fired and suspended when bosses surrendered to 'lunacy' around complaints about them.

'In this ideology, you are guilty for the sins of your father. In other words: you are not you. You are only a mere avatar of your race or your religion,' she adds.

'Perhaps most importantly, in this ideology, speech — the way that we resolve conflict in a civilized society — can be violence, yet violence, when carried out by the right people in pursuit of a just cause, is not violence at all.' ...

She hits out at the Times and claims that it cannot call itself the 'paper of record and ignore the views of half of the country'.

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1   HeadSet   2021 Mar 9, 5:54am  

She hits out at the Times and claims that it cannot call itself the 'paper of record and ignore the views of half of the country'.

Not just ignoring "views," but ignoring facts.
2   Patrick   2021 Jun 10, 9:41am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9669525/Bari-Weiss-says-bullied-New-York-Times-editors-live-fear-internet-mob.html

'The short version of the story is that I, like a growing number of journalists, did not want to participate in a project for another day that was betraying my values.

'That was actively fermenting rage, polarization, distrust. And that made it impossible to tell you the truth,' she said.

Weiss said what was happening to the country could not go on for any longer, and people should not feel afraid to speak out against it.

'Normal people who watch others being attacked, they have a perfectly human response - they stay quiet.

'The threat of public shaming has been massively, enormously, amazingly effective. It has led to an epidemic of self-silencing and fear.

'How has this become a normal feature of American life? What are we sacrificing when we don't have the courage to tell the truth?

The threat of public shaming has been massively, enormously, amazingly effective...How has this become a normal feature of American life?

'I don't think it's enough anymore to be quietly, privately, against this creeping dogma. It's time to speak honestly. Part of the reason we go there is many of us don't think in the day to day what we really value... we don't always notice when those values have been betrayed.
3   AmericanKulak   2021 Jun 10, 11:25am  

One thing we can do is get the biggest ass American flags in the largest quantity and wave them like we just don't care.
4   Patrick   2021 Jun 10, 6:24pm  

I'm going to put my American flag back up by my mailbox right now.
5   Shaman   2021 Jun 10, 8:43pm  

ThreeBays says
Sounds woke about wokeness.


Chinese shill says what?
6   clambo   2021 Jun 11, 5:42am  

The liberal fools don’t know how much they are just fucking themselves.

The New York Times is no longer a pro American workers paper, not since Carlos Slim (Mexican robber baron Telmex/Telcel) bailed them out with a couple of hundred million bucks.

People are voting with their eyeballs against the liberal bullshit. Nobody buys a paper and lots of alternative news sites exist.

Others are voting with their feet and departing liberal cities, which cost them tax revenue.
The trend is not stopping.
7   Onvacation   2021 Jun 11, 10:12am  

ThreeBays says
Shaman says
Chinese shill says what?


Russian bots say what? You couldn't be more wrong.

Who are you shilling for? Or are your thoughts really your own?

THINK HARD before not answering.
8   Patrick   2021 Jun 11, 10:12am  

clambo says
The New York Times is no longer a pro American workers paper, not since Carlos Slim (Mexican robber baron Telmex/Telcel) bailed them out with a couple of hundred million bucks.


I wonder if he might also be the one that corrupted the Wikipedia with a hundred million dollars.
10   richwicks   2022 Jan 22, 2:52pm  

Patrick says
clambo says
The New York Times is no longer a pro American workers paper, not since Carlos Slim (Mexican robber baron Telmex/Telcel) bailed them out with a couple of hundred million bucks.


I wonder if he might also be the one that corrupted the Wikipedia with a hundred million dollars.


People can't just depend on somebody else NOT to produce propaganda and purposely misinform the public. This ALWAYS happened.

All that's changed is people are becoming aware of it.

If you think Wikipedia or the NY Times were ever objective, you just don't what you were lied about in the 1990s. All that is happening, is it's becoming more obvious - to YOU. This is because the thinking and ideas of millions of people are bubbling up to the surface. We've never had the ability for some random person's ideas and experiences to make it to the masses, UNFILTERED and without going through a bunch of gatekeepers.
11   Patrick   2022 Jan 22, 3:54pm  

Wikipedia was clearly open at first, with no articles locked. Then they started locking the really contentious political articles, like about the Armenian genocide (Turks and Armenians would constantly revert each others' edits).

But then a few years ago, rather suddenly, ALL the political articles got locked, and locked into a far-left point of view. And that coincided with the Wikipedia suddenly having $100M extra in the bank.
12   Patrick   2022 Jan 31, 9:41pm  

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/dr-ira-bernstein-in-being-attacked?source=patrick.net


Dr. Ira Bernstein in being attacked. Like, attacked. Physically. In Canada. For being a doctor.
Please ask your friends following the narrative what would justify violence against a medical doctor?
13   Patrick   2022 Feb 17, 8:10pm  

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-left-attacks-the-working?source=patrick.net


What kind of "left" attacks the working class as "fascist," and pushes FOR the "vaccination" of the poor worldwide?
It's not a "left" that serves the working class, or anybody other than the globalists who manage it
14   Patrick   2022 Feb 17, 8:47pm  

https://markchangizi.substack.com/p/100-million-more-people-living-in?source=patrick.net


100 million more people living in extreme poverty
Hysteria did this, not Covid19


Specifically liberal hysteria.
15   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 17, 11:42pm  

This is a problem.

Tis better to be loved than feared... but you better be one or the other, preferably both.
16   Blue   2022 Feb 18, 1:17am  

Patrick says
I'm going to put my American flag back up by my mailbox right now.

Is there a security risk involved with the display. I put a small one visible from my window. How do people perceive when they see it.

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