This is what finally got me to cancel my subscription.
I'm not sure if the @nytimes.com leadership is genuinely authoritarian or just so lost in its navel-gazing it can't see what it's doing, but I *do* know this:
Whoever wrote this editorial is an idiot & I'm not paying to hear this shit anymore.
This is at least 91% Bret Stephens' creation (meaning he's the voice that crap editor and owner listen to)-- the level of whinging that comes from a lifetime of throwing rocks at people from behind an impenetrable barricade is unmistakable
Genuinely disappointed that Oops! I Crapped My Pants was an SNL creation and not an actual product. The other 9% is World's Most Unpalatable Soccer Dad Ross Douthat and elder whiny blob of triple-bleached goo David Brooks.
I'd use the comic strip of someone doing the rounds of media to say they're being silenced, but they're using arguably the biggest media platform in the country that they own to do it
Remember the time they were carrying on about how Dershowitz not being invited to the cool parties was an urgent national crisis? Clearly this really is who they are.
In their pearl-clutching, don't they realize they're advocating for critics of the initial person to lose "the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions" in response?
Best example of the value and impact of shaming: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” It was then McCarthy’s turn to be stunned into silence, as Welch asked, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
the fucking nerve.
these are the same assholes who LOUDLY insist that liberals need safe space, and meanwhile, they're arguing "assholes need a safe space and have their egos fluffed for their awful opinions"
Can they think of any point in history - American or otherwise - where you could say *literally anything* in a public forum or town meeting that wouldn't get you shamed or shunned?
Whose tonedeaf candor will be held accountable?
Whose indignation will be the most righteous?
Whose feet will walk a bad-faith one-way street while wagging their finger at others?
Find out tonight on Shame Or Shun!
