Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Bari Weiss Resigns from the New York Times

The New York Times just lost Bari Weiss. One of the brighter young journalists, an excellent writer, someone I have occasionally quoted (very favorably) on this blog, Weiss just resigned from the Times. 

Being a centrist, being Jewish, being gay… you would have thought that Weiss would have had been protected by the powers that  be at the Times. Alas, the powers are mostly impotent now. They run with the mob and they submit to the mob. If Times staff detests you for being Jewish, the publisher will not stand with you. If Times staff harasses and bullies you, the publisher will not stand with you. 

For my part I find it unspeakably sad, though we would all cheer if Weiss sues the Times for condoning a hostile work environment.

I am linking her resignation letter because it contains the good writing and clear thinking we have come to expect from her. 

As in this remark about the new press consensus:

Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.

And you were worried about Fox News. One notes that Fox News does have a diversity of opinions and that no one was ever bullied and harassed for expressing a liberal or progressive view.

In the above quotation, Weiss identifies one of the staples of the new leftist thinking: a band of philosopher kings is running the show. They take upon themselves the task of telling everyone else how to think, and of ensuring that only the correct opinion is allowed.

Weiss describes the way she was treated at the Times:

My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.

There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong. 

And, she addresses the new publisher, the young scion of the Sulzberger family, called. A. G. 

I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.

Only one opinion is allowed in the Times, Weiss continues: one that denounces and decries Donald Trump:

Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world? 

It is beyond appalling, but it is good that someone from within the New York Times is calling it out for its appalling dereliction, its appalling lack of journalistic ethics.

We admire Bari Weiss. We wish her the best. And we look forward to reading her again and again.

5 comments:

  1. The hatred toward white people is out in the open, and Jews are white people. This hatred isn’t even concealed. Either express your own self-contempt and renounce your own people or be classified as a recalcitrant white racist. That is the project of the NYT. That is their reason for existing.

    Bari Weiss seems like a perfectly decent person who finally came to grips with the fact that leftism is inherently indecent. Maybe she can join the Bulwark in her next stage of denial. $20 says she cannot red pill.

    And where are the Jews in this madness? Trying to sell the old goods, the Jewish victim narrative, to a world has moved on. The victim narrative moved to the blacks, and the gays, and the Arabs. Jews are stupidly going to try and climb on the victim bandwagon, but they will be beaten off it. If you are a Jew willing to support BDS, you are welcome (until after they achieve their goals). If you are a Jew who stands up for Israel (or worse, Orangeman, or worse, truth)) then you are just another white racist defending the patriarchy--no matter what your past. These enemies cannot read, so talking about documented history is pointless.

    Nice to see someone, someplace, take a stand. Her lawsuit will only have merit if Orangeman wins. If he loses, her lawsuit will fail. In fact, the NYT Times will countersue her and she will be ruined. The law depends of who controls the levers of power. There is no rule of law, just rule of interests.

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  2. She was a truly great Jewish leader in the battle against Adolf Muhammad.

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  3. She is pointing out the new secular Gnosticism: “... an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.“

    No one dares talk about this gnosis, and where it comes from. Seems to be an infinitesimally small elite calling the shots. Who protects them?

    And it’s ruining our country.

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  4. AH!! Another opportunity to say that I despise, detest, and distrust the NYT (and it's little dog WaPoo, too!)

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  5. Received via email:
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    Writing as an anti Trump democrat.

    Slowly with this R accusation...

    The racists that cry "racism" (the phenomenon after exposing some of Bari Weiss' former colleages at New York Times).

    We do not all know these former colleague personally. Yet, it is about the phenomenon in and of itself.

    Let's take specifically Bari Weiss' accusation. Excerpt:

    'My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are...
    But there is still none appended to Cheryl Strayed’s fawning interview with the writer Alice Walker, a proud anti-Semite who believes in lizard Illuminati.'
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    It reminds how Racists cry "racism". [https://www.wnd.com/2001/09/10776/] .

    It goes back to the first on record true hater who began this slippery slope of using this as epithet only to hurt while being THE racist.


    It was Issa Nakhleh who made sure to throw it in the face of survivors of the Holocaust in the US in his first of a kind June 17, 1949 "worst than nazis" memo.

    This cruel human being couldn't hold himself back in November 14, 1972  [https://books.google.com/books?id=wk0oAQAAMAAJ&q=issa+nakhleh+hitler] 

    to expose himself as he uttered that Hitler never killed Jews and denied the Holocaust ever happened. All the millions are alive... He said that it was all invented By J... He repeated it 6 years later to disturb the peace of Camp David between Sadat and Begin Historic peace summit. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dUz4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA120]

    Imagine the maliciousness of only less than 3 decades after WW2, stating this as those who lost so many and went through so much, revictimized all over again.

    This non-white brown Arab linked with most true neo nazis "aryans," since the 1960's [https://books.google.com/books?id=zdc3AQAAIAAJ&q=issa+nakhleh+hitler], published "articles," for them, spoke at holocaust denial convention representing Muslim Congress [https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUSAQAAMAAJ&q=nakhleh+hitler], and defended holocaust-denier Ditlieb [https://books.google.com/books?id=2PCQBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT339].

    Again, turning back the clock, remember his accusation of Nazism in 1949?

    (Unrelated to this. Though we could go on for days to show the raw racism in how Arab militants' violence linked to Gaza government or "moderate" Ramallah government or helped by Arabs inside Israel target specifically only Jews (I refer to civilians) and not Arabs. Or Racist dehumanization in Palestine [https://www.google.com/search?q=pa+apes+pigs] .
    ... annexation would be a mistake. Yet, slowly with this R accusation , that became but a knife so often).



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