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It’s amazing that the same two links always get repeated as if they diminish an impressive career as a journalist and editor. Greenwald has done important work,
by krrrh 5y ago
It’s amazing that the same two links always get repeated as if they diminish an impressive career as a journalist and editor. Greenwald has done important work, but his slander against Weiss is not one of them. David French was involved at the time of the events as the head of FIRE, here’s his recounting
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/the-sliming-of-bari-weiss/amp/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/the-sliming-of-bari-w...
French:
> In fact, if you read Bari’s own writing at the time, you won’t find a call to terminate professors. Instead, you’ll find a critique of a department that she had good reason to believe had lost its way. That’s free speech. That’s an exercise of her own academic freedom. It’s not a shout-down. It’s not a threat. It’s a debate.
Regardless, it’s sad that our culture today makes it so normal to attack a 37-year-old with a strong record of free speech advocacy during her actual career over something she’s accused of doing while in college. Accusations of hypocrisy require a statue of limitations.