@adamdavidson It's not absurd because people who I consider smart and to be acting in good faith have, at least until recently, believed that there was something to these claims that elements on the left (cough trans people cough black people cough) were suppressing free speech and Weiss/Taibbi types were its defenders.
I found it maddening, but my hope is that this demonstrates for at least some folks how hollow and baseless all of that junk always was.
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@e_urq @adamdavidson To be clear, you don't think they're smart or acting in good faith anymore, right?
@LouisIngenthron @adamdavidson I never thought Bari Weiss etc were.
I still think people like my dad, people who aren't journalists, haven't gone deep on this, and just trust the NYT a lot can be smart and acting in good faith and believe some of this as conventional wisdom.
No one who's looked deeply at it, of course, but a lot of people haven't.