The reporting in this story about Shor is important and what happened to him is a travesty. Almost all narratives about PC are hysterical centrist bed-wetting, but in this case there is a genuine wrong.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1271076001615929346 …
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Anyways, more on this here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-free-speech/ …
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Yeah - I think the status point is vitally important in this, because *that* is what the stakes really are. The interests at play are public ones around the legacy of the New York Times, and its peers, which the readership weighs in on. Not a handful of jobs.
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The institutions want to preserve their status, which makes them exceptionally sensitive to public pressure, particularly from sources that represent the values that they hold in high esteem.
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An average white woman filmed calling police on a black person for shaky reasons is liable to be fired from her job after social media firestorm. Even if they work at McDonalds. Do you agree this purely race-based punishment is just? It is not just a elites in danger.
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Someone losing a job is not the same as being guillotined, thank goodness. It's still pretty serious. Even if it happens to an academic or journalist. Its also serious when Jewish orgs have to create lists of campuses where an 18 yo won't be harassed.
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"losing their phoney baloney jobs and status" Yes, those phoney baloney jobs and status which people like yourself openly covet.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1271222365473538048 …
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Seems to me like the people who consistently hold that all this is overreaction also happen to be those least likely to have any heterodox opinions relative to preferences of whatever we’re calling this online consensus (successor ideology I guess?)
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