The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)
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Perhaps the cleanest example of this dynamic was in 2018, when David Remnick, under tremendous public pressure from his staffers, disinvited Steve Bannon from appearing on stage at the New Yorker Ideas Festival. But there are dozens and dozens of examples.
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I've been mocked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars. They told me it was a sideshow. But this was always why it mattered: The people who graduated from those campuses would rise to power inside key institutions and transform them.
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I'm in no way surprised by what has now exploded into public view. In a way, it's oddly comforting: I feel less alone and less crazy trying to explain the dynamic to people. What I am shocked by is the speed. I thought it would take a few years, not a few weeks.
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Here's one way to think about what's at stake: The New York Times motto is "all the news that's fit to print." One group emphasizes the word "all." The other, the word "fit."
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W/r/t Tom Cotton's oped and the choice to run it: I agree with our critics that it's a dodge to say "we want a totally open marketplace of ideas!" There are limits. Obviously. The question is: does his view fall outside those limits? Maybe the answer is yes.
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If the answer is yes, it means that the view of more than half of Americans are unacceptable. And perhaps they are.https://theweek.com/speedreads/917760/plurality-democrats-support-calling-military-aid-police-during-protests-poll-shows …
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You are talking tripe. When you talk about "safetyism" you are laundering your argument, debating by proxy— you simply think young people just haven't considered your conservative (& Cotton's fascist) ideas yet. We have. We do not need to keep hearing them. We have rejected them.
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The irony is that you've embraced fascism. It's just obscured by the age old liberal convention of changing a label/name in the belief you've therefore changed its substance. Zero tolerance for opposing views/silencing opposition/violent intimidation/no free speech/etc: Fascism.
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bari you tried to ruin the careers of professors you disagreed with
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hey, I'd like to publish an op-ed in support of BDS, who do I talk to about that?
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The NYT publishes lots of pro-BDS op-eds.
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