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The writer, as far as I can tell, was an unassuming center-left liberal, until something happened while she was at NYT, and now she is on a crusade against the

The writer, as far as I can tell, was an unassuming center-left liberal, until something happened while she was at NYT, and now she is on a crusade against the forces who did that something to her. She reminds me of those anticommunists you used to see from Eastern Europe. They wouldn't ordinarily be conservatives, but, after experiencing the Soviets, everything changes; for them, all the threats now seem to come from the left. I can't really blame them. You're right that she's a little one-note at this point, though. (Correction: I thought this was written by Bari Weiss, but the author is Aaron Sibarium. The latter, I am unfamiliar with.)

SauciestGNU 5y ago
She was never anything but this. She only wants free speech for those who agree with her. She tried to get a professor fired for supporting Palestinian human rights while she was in college, and then has the nerve to say that individuals voluntarily refusing to associate with people who express views they find repugnant are really the ones who are doing illiberal censorship.
- ryandrake 5y ago
  I'm almost afraid to ask, but why is everyone calling the author "she"? The byline shows the author as "Aaron Sibarium." I don't want to offend, since maybe Aaron goes by the "she" pronoun, but it's a weird assumption to make even in 2022.
  - FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
    Because we thought the author was Bari Weiss.
  - ss108 5y ago
    We are all mistaken because of the url. I read the article, and it was easy to gloss over the fact that Weiss didn't actually write it.
  - SauciestGNU 5y ago
    Yeah I was just mistaken about the authorship of the article, I didn't read the byline because it was on Bari Weiss' domain.
toyg 5y ago
The most rabid anti-smokers are ex-smokers, and the strongest pacifists are army veterans. We tend to absorb much of our values and tenets from families and environment, in a relatively uncritical way; hence, they are fundamentally weak, and often doctrinaire. When, instead, we reach certain conclusions individually, on the back of our personal experience, they become practically unassailable, because "my experiences are unquestionably real, and my brain cannot be wrong". This can be a good thing, but can also fog one's vision for good.

SauciestGNU 5y ago

She was never anything but this. She only wants free speech for those who agree with her. She tried to get a professor fired for supporting Palestinian human rights while she was in college, and then has the nerve to say that individuals voluntarily refusing to associate with people who express views they find repugnant are really the ones who are doing illiberal censorship.

ryandrake 5y ago
I'm almost afraid to ask, but why is everyone calling the author "she"? The byline shows the author as "Aaron Sibarium." I don't want to offend, since maybe Aaron goes by the "she" pronoun, but it's a weird assumption to make even in 2022.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
  Because we thought the author was Bari Weiss.
- ss108 5y ago
  We are all mistaken because of the url. I read the article, and it was easy to gloss over the fact that Weiss didn't actually write it.
- SauciestGNU 5y ago
  Yeah I was just mistaken about the authorship of the article, I didn't read the byline because it was on Bari Weiss' domain.

toyg 5y ago

The most rabid anti-smokers are ex-smokers, and the strongest pacifists are army veterans. We tend to absorb much of our values and tenets from families and environment, in a relatively uncritical way; hence, they are fundamentally weak, and often doctrinaire. When, instead, we reach certain conclusions individually, on the back of our personal experience, they become practically unassailable, because "my experiences are unquestionably real, and my brain cannot be wrong". This can be a good thing, but can also fog one's vision for good.