As the now-former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss expertly demonstrated, the proper way to stand up to an employer you believe engages in unethical practices is not to tweet about it, but instead put your money where your mouth is and walk out the door before putting your bosses on blast.
In a scathing letter made public on her personal website, Weiss charged the New York Times with intentionally allowing her colleagues to bully her and heave anti-Semitic smears her way in formal work channels. Worse yet, Weiss confirmed what we all have seen in real-time, namely that the tail now wags the dog at the New York Times, leading to social media mobs and “woke” staffers dictating decisions far above their pay grade.
This is no mere performance. Weiss willingly exited the (flailing) paper of record, leaving the opinion page with nary a senior editor who believes in true liberalism. That is, not the brand of leftism that deems heterodoxy as heretical. (Conservatives such as Ross Douthat, David Brooks, and Bret Stephens remain as columnists.)
Compare this actual statement backed up by a sacrifice to the mealy mouthed mob that started a civil war against the opinion page last month when the young wokes at the New York Times responded to the opinion page publishing a sitting U.S. senator expressing an opinion shared by 58% of the nation hysterically. It tweeted the same copy pasta en masse, accusing the people responsible for paying their rents of putting black folks in physical danger. That’s a hell of a charge, and of course it means absolutely nothing if you’re still happy to take a paycheck from the people you accused of fomenting racial violence.
Nobody at the New York Times actually believes they were putting black people in literal danger, and that’s why not one coward who said that resigned, lest they be culpable in violent white supremacy. Bari Weiss said the increasingly illiberal New York Times was inculcating a workplace as homogenous as its opinion page, and one littered with nascent anti-Semitism. And we know that she genuinely believes what she wrote, because she proved it when she walked out the door for good.
Folks, take note. If you’re going to crucify your employers publicly, have the dignity and the decency to prove you mean it.
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