OPINION_ Ben Shapiro: Bari Weiss vs. NY Times 'woke' groupthink – the Great Culture Purge of 2020 marches on

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Ben Shapiro: Bari Weiss vs. NY Times 'woke' groupthink – the Great Culture Purge of 2020 marches on

There is only one way to avoid the blacklist: to surrender, utterly and completely

OPINION - By Ben Shapiro | Creators Syndicate


Bari Weiss resigns from NYT, alleges bullying from colleagues


This week, gadfly New York Times columnist Bari Weiss resigned her position at the so-called newspaper of record.

She did so after years of fielding slings and arrows from her own colleagues and editors, who treated her as an ultra-conservative enemy -- this despite the fact that her perspective on the world is an eclectic mix of social progressivism, skepticism toward regulation and foreign policy hawkishness. (Personal disclosure: I, along with many people right, left and center consider Bari a friend.)

The pressure on Weiss from within the newspaper had reached extraordinary proportions: Excerpts of staff Slack chats revealed colleagues openly discussing why Weiss ought to lose her job, maligning her as a bigot and suggesting publicly that she is a liar.


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So Weiss quit, and she burned the bridge behind her.

"The lessons that ought to have followed the election -- lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society -- have not been learned," Weiss wrote in her resignation letter.

"Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."

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