Posted on 07/14/2020 8:48:08 AM PDT by AggregateThreat
It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.
I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming.
(Excerpt) Read more at bariweiss.com ...
It took her 3 years to figure all this out? What a dope.
“There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination....”
Right. The plaintive cry that the “democrats are the real racists” is laughed at by everyone.
I see the problem here:
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Mr. Weiss needs to pay a visit to the Bronx Zoo and share his views with the lions and tigers.
Hopefully he is not foolish enough to get inside their cages to have that discussion.
;-)
The times is a Leftist mouthpiece and propaganda organ, the letter is a nice summation of this.
Quite long, but a good read and eye opening. I doubt anyone at the so-called “paper of record” will give it more than a glance and then write and say terrible things about Bari...
A remarkable piece. Best wishes to Ms. Weiss.
His Deutsch cousin.
Anyone who follows this know this is the end result of when an institution embraces “diversity” and “inclusion”. The people in the room might superficially look different but they all think exactly alike.
The true colors of the NYT has been known for a lot more than 3 years.
I caught that after I posted, ;-)
Don’t think it would matter to the lions and tigers (or crazy leftists) though—all humans look like meat.
Yeah—”optimism” about the Slimes is a special kind of stupid.
100% right. She’s persona non grata now.
I don’t usually read these things to the end. But I read this one all the way through. It was worth the read.
Is it possible that NYT was threatened by jihadists to publish anti-semitic stuff or else there would be a few visitors? Not giving excuses but....charlie hebdo and danish journalists come to mind.
There are people in this world who don’t subscribe to coexistence. Just sayin’
The New York Times has never applied to its own history the standards it uses to demonize others. If it did, reporters there would learn that the Ochs-Sulzberger family that has owned and run the paper for 125 years has a “complicated legacy” of its own.
That legacy includes Confederates in the closet — men and at least one woman who supported the South and slavery during the Civil War. In fact, Times patriarch Adolph S. Ochs contributed money to the very Stone Mountain project and other Confederate memorials the Times now finds so objectionable.
Ochs’ parents, Julius and Bertha Levy, were German Jewish immigrants who met in the American South, yet had very different views on slavery.
While living with an uncle in Natchez, Miss., Bertha developed a fondness for it, a fact noted in family histories.
In “The Trust,” a 1999 authorized biography of the Ochs-Sulzberger families, authors Susan Tifft and Alex Jones write that Julius had witnessed slave auctions and described them as a “villainous relic of barbarism,” but Bertha “embraced a contemptuous antebellum view of blacks, and for the rest of her life was dogmatically conservative, even reactionary.” She was, they said, determined to preserve “the South’s peculiar institution.”
One of her descendants referred to her as “that Confederate lady.”
I am aware of no evidence or claims that any members of Bertha’s family owned slaves or participated in the slave trade.
During the Civil War, Bertha had at least one brother who joined the rebel army, and she herself was suspected of being a spy. On one occasion, she was caught smuggling medical supplies from Ohio into rebel-held Kentucky.
But 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. 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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