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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'll leave to the audience to decide whether you are equally tolerant of all threats to free speech, be it a hippie on Twitter or a US Senator urging that the military suppress protests. I guess I missed the part where you told everyone that the New York Times should be giving op-ed space to the lefty critics of the Harper's letter.
I said, who is being silenced, and you say Bari Weiss? Whatever is happening with her, she is not being "silenced." She just wrote a book that some people really liked and some people really did not like. But not for the pandemic, she would have been on an international book tour this spring, something you can read about on her web site, next to her press clips. Clearly you are using "silenced" as a euphemism for something else.
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The Times should give space to critics of the Harper’s Letter. I would like to see that debate.
“We argue that shaming and screaming for deplatforming is not discourse between thinking adults.”
“But power dynamics! Something something something... You're old! Racist!”
“Explain yourselves.”
“Patriarchy! Old men! You have to go! We journalists of the New Truth see through you’re using facts and logic. Those are tools of old men scared about keeping their power, like Gloria Steinem and Margaret Atwood.”
“You’re nuts.”
“Racists!”
“I think we’ll just turn the channel now. Call us when you children grow up.”
