Following the resignation of journalist Bari Weiss from the New York Times, Eric Weinstein, managing director of Thiel Capital, had this assessment of the Times and other beacons of progressiveism from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to the Guardian, the BBC and National Public Radio.
| This is the moment when the passengers who have become increasingly alarmed, start to entertain a new idea: what if the people in the cockpit are not airline pilots? Well the Twitter Activists at the @nytimes and elsewhere are not journalists. What if those calling for empathy have a specific deadness of empathy? Those calling for justice *are* the unjust? Those calling “Privilege” are the privileged? Those calling for equality seek to oppress us? Those anti-racists are open racists? The progressives seek regress? The journalists are covering up the news? Try the following exercise: put a minus sign in front of nearly every banner claim made by “the progressives”. Q: Doesn’t that make more sense? |
