You get into political journalism, criticism is part of the deal. Your own co-workers going after you in public should not be.
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Like the Atlantic, the Times has every right, of course, to purge from its ranks everyone who does not adhere to particular ideological enthusiasms. But it cannot maintain the illusion of anything else when it is so openly shabby in its treatment of those who do not.
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It is drearily revealing how often woke progressivism seems to demand treating other people like garbage. Politicizing everything has an inevitably corrosive tendency to turn disagreement into dehumanization.
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The Trump era has revealed that there are more truly awful people on the Right than I had believed before 2015. But at least it is still not the case that our side's ideas systematically drive us to be horrible to those around us. Let us never adopt such stultifying orthodoxies.
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In every battle within the Right, we should look to what life on & in the Left & the institutions it runs is really like, & do everything in our power to never be like that.
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If your ideas keep requiring you to abandon basic decency in dealing with the people around you, get different ideas.
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Is it—is it centrists?
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You're not even going to *pretend* to know what we're talking about?
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