Thoughts on Bari Weiss?

[Anonymous]

She seems radical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Her views are abhorrent - next!

I mean, she is a progressive democrat.

But not progressive enough so she needs to get cancelled.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, progressive about Weiss.

[Anonymous]

Who?

[Anonymous]

So a lot of posters don’t like her because she’s a “Zionist”. I thought your lot were already resigned to the fact that “they” controlled the media??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have just never found her to be the independent or critical thinker she claims to be. Contrarian, maybe. But contrarianism isn’t the same as critical thinking or real independence.

Op, ditto. I have read the free press a little and there is some absolute drivel in it. I also listened to her do a podcast interview with some pro Israel right wing English guy. It was hardly an ‘interview’ but rather just her effusively agreeing with everything he said.

When she left the Nyt, there was a second I thought she’d made a few valid points about woke ism (the NYT pushed out that reporter who used the N word as a discussion point) but she quickly veered into self promotion with little to back it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a lot of posters don’t like her because she’s a “Zionist”. I thought your lot were already resigned to the fact that “they” controlled the media??

Not sure what you’re trying to say, but Zionism seems to be the only thing she cares about, and as a supposed journalist, you’d expect her to approach a news worthy issue like this with some critical thinking skills. She doesn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I like her. Cancel culture exists and she does a very good job of pushing back on it in a sane way.

Some of her views are too much for me. But I’ve never thought I had to agree with someone 100% of the time for them to be a good person. She is a bit smug, but not outside what is normal for contemporary pundits.

Bari Weiss crusaded for years to get Muslim professors at Columbia fired, aka “canceled” because she did not agree with their views on Israel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Unbecoming_controversy

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-falsely-denies-her-years-of-attacks-on-the-academic-freedom-of-arab-scholars-who-criticize-israel/

[url]I think she’s disliked by a lot of journalists because they can smell her hypocrisy on the issues of “cancelation” and “academic freedom”

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This what I’ve heard from editor friends. She’s full of shit.

[Anonymous]

She is a democrat.

But she is not very intersectional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She started her career trying to get professors at Columbia that criticized Israel fired. Her "anti-cancel culture" bit is a just a show.

This is the thing the brain-dead who like her just choose to ignore. Right-wingers in particular are just so dumb when it comes to her and Bill Ackman. They think their sudden "anti-woke" act is about an overall viewpoint rather than conditioned on their rabid Zionism. It exposes their hypocrisy and entitlement.

Their "liberalism" was always conditional. They whine about "cancel culture" and "DEI" now, only because the younger people aren't falling for the lies about Israel. It's no coincidence that she started whining when more and more college students wouldn't go along with propaganda people like her push. She's another one who stays in a bubble while claiming others are in one.

She appeals to a mindset that is anti-intellectual and embraces their cognitive dissonance like a security blanket.

Her glaring hypocrisy on full display. No doubt she has cherry-picked Te-Nehisi Coates by now.