Writers complaining that Bari asked them to think outside the box is such an incredible self-own that I'm excited to see what else this very young day has in store.
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Now we know that that openness to diversity does not exist in any meaningful way. But Bari's hire was a gesture at diversity in a way that Douthat's columns never can or will be. Ppl on here keep referring to her as a columnist whose main significance was her own words. Nonsense.
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And you saw it with that tweet of the writer complaining that Bari tried to make her think. To those making the comparison, would you be comfortable with Ross Douthat having gatekeeper responsibilities at the NYT opinion? Do you even know what you're saying? You do not.
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What ppl wanted from Bari was precisely the tokenism they love about Ross or Brooks. They wanted her ghettoized and powerless, an avatar of opinions and people they hate. They wanted her to sit there quietly in a zoo cage.
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But the thing is, Bari is a fantastic editor. Far more experienced and wiser than her critics, they resented her status. She was happy to mentor them, but they would first have to treat her as equally worthy of participating in society as they, and that was a nonstarter for them.
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Oof, talk about faint praise.
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I think things have shifted significantly against that since her hiring
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