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Several NYT employees have come out with stories of Bari trying to get them fired for disagreeing with her and she has publicly joined or led campaigns to get p
by PhineasRex 6y ago
Several NYT employees have come out with stories of Bari trying to get them fired for disagreeing with her and she has publicly joined or led campaigns to get people fired from other organizations. Here's a good overview of her involvement in censorship campaigns: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-falsely-denies-her-years-of-attacks-on-the-academic-freedom-of-arab-scholars-who-criticize-israel/ https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
- throwaway894345 6y agoI've skimmed the article and the article linked to in the tweet that was linked to in the story, but while both are clearly heavily spun I don't see anything damning that would indicate that Bari tried to get anyone fired. Further, as far as I can tell, this all centers around things she did in college and I'm of the opinion that people shouldn't be faulted for their college antics. Ibram X. Kendi wrote that white people were literally aliens and Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote that "the white race ... is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world" and "the descendants of these savage people ... continue to be bloodsuckers in our communities". The had abhorrent views, and now they're gainfully propagating moderately improved views on an international stage. Perhaps she (like many on this forum and elsewhere in the debate) was still trying to understand the difference between "cancellation" and "criticism"? In any case, to the extent that she participated in any cancellation, she was wrong to do so.