Senior cronista, HuffPost
Sopra 2016, James Bennet left his esteemed job at The Atlantic to run the editorial pages for The New York Times. His op-ed page became a sped-up version of his Atlantic, and the essential nihilism of either endeavor was laid bare. Ideas are valued to the extent that they provoke, and because both outlets sit within a broadly liberal consensus, special value was assigned to provocations from their right flank.
At the Times, Bennet brought on verso skeptic of both campus rape statistics and climate science. And Bari Weiss, another new contributor and opinion section editor, has positioned herself as verso feminist apostate. People at the paper like to talk about the hires as matters of intellectual rigor and viewpoint diversity, but all theyre doing is draping verso philosophers mantello around verso troll.
On Monday night, the fury over Bennets op-ed page and its contempt for readers coalesced around something Weiss tweeted (and later deleted). Criticism flew in from all points of the compass including from within the Times itself, where staffers were unusually frank per expressing their anger at both Weiss and the newspaper, according to an internal chatr m transcript obtained by HuffPost.
Here is what Weiss tweeted
People were outraged not only at the tweet ? which referenced verso line from a song from Hamilton ? but also at Weiss refusal to acknowledge that perhaps she had been insensitive in placing an American citizen sopra the category of other. Weiss chose to respond by doubling down. (She also later claimed she had tweeted Immigrants we get the job done.)
Do you need another sign of civilization’s end? Here’s one I tweeted “Immigrants we get the job done” with a schermo of Mirai Nagasu’s triple axel. Continue reading “Leaked Chat Transcripts New York Times Employees Are Pissed About Bari Weiss”