Every former Democrat like me who has chosen to #WALKAWAY always experiences deja vu when they see others finally noticing and objecting to the way Democrats have become so unhinged that they’ve turned every aspect of life into a political battlefield. And they want everyone who disagrees with them destroyed, personally and professionally.
Various hardcore anti-Trump reporters have shown integrity by objecting to the crazed, rabid propaganda that their colleagues have been churning out, especially following the riots over George Floyd’s death. The police behavior involved in that death was so blatantly out of line that for a few brief moments the nation was united in sadness and outrage.
A nation united is something that Democrats can not stand to see, and even though the Minneapolis officers involved were quickly fired and/or facing charges the Democrats and their media outlets rapidly transformed the situation into hate-filled riots and looting that raged for days.
The Tom Cotton op-ed at the New York Times and what followed erupted into what some journalists have called “civil wars” in newsrooms across the country between rational reporters and their unhinged colleagues. Links are below, but first some excerpts from journalists whose anti-Trump credentials cannot be questioned.
First up, female journalist Bari Weiss:
Bari Weiss
✔@bariweiss
The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)
The Old Guard lives by a set of principles we can broadly call civil libertarianism. They assumed they shared that worldview with the young people they hired who called themselves liberals and progressives. But it was an incorrect assumption.
The New Guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by @JonHaidt and @glukianoff. They call it “safetyism,” in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech … there are dozens and dozens of examples.
I’ve been mocked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars. They told me it was a sideshow. But this was always why it mattered: The people who graduated from those campuses would rise to power inside key institutions and transform them. (NOTE FROM BALLADEER: LINK TO MY PIECES ABOUT THAT SITUATION HERE )
I’m in no way surprised by what has now exploded into public view. In a way, it’s oddly comforting: I feel less alone and less crazy trying to explain the dynamic to people. What I am shocked by is the speed. I thought it would take a few years, not a few weeks.
Next up is Michael Tracey:
Michael Tracey
✔@mtracey
The NYT and other media institutions are being held hostage by millennials whose belief system includes such precepts as, “Publishing something I disagree with physically endangers me.” They use bizarre emotional manipulation tactics to assert their dominance. And they’re winning.
… What the media trolls don’t understand is many of their colleagues privately agree with me, and tell me so, but are too petrified to say anything publicly because they know they will be destroyed.
… The media cry-bullies said that an op-ed in a newspaper was literal violence, but then they say YOU’RE the crazy one for pointing out how crazy that logic is.
Everywhere from the New York Times, to Variety, to The Intercept, these 20 and 30-something journalist cry-bullies are successfully forcing institutions to bend to their will and accommodate their sputtering, logic-free emotional meltdowns. The media industry is completely fucked.
If you’re an emotionally unstable baby who regards disagreement as “violence” journalism is probably the wrong field for you.
I’m (in) a weird position because I’ve strongly advocated systemic police reform my entire life, and still do — US police are rampant with corruption and excess force — but now it’s attached to all these bizarre cultural/religious attitudes that I have no affinity with whatsoever
Last up, this wry observation from Salon‘s Will Saleton:
Will Saletan
✔@saletan
I can’t believe these guys got me to defend Tom Cotton! But here we are.
They could have just published a couple more op-eds taking down his argument. But that would have been too … liberal.
Yes, words like liberal and conservative have lost all meaning.
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I feel that the current generation of journalists (may be some but not all) have no understanding of journalism at all. Journalist should see any issue without any prism but only with lens. True past generation journalists were pro or anti government, democrats, republics and this generation will also have. But what remains permanent is a journalist should gather facts, analyse them without any bias, and provide an opinion. Sad this fact is missed by many.
You said it perfectly. It is now all propaganda and no journalism.
Democrats have made every single part of life about nothing but their political opinions.
That is true.
Very well put! Reporters are nothing but propagandists now.
Thanks! You said it!
American media reps do not deserve any respect at all.
You are right.
Democrats have destroyed everything they’ve touched.
Yes they have.
America has no more journalists outside of Sharyl Attkisson.
That is true.
The yellow press in Hearst’s day was more credible than what we have now.
That is certainly the truth.
You sure those reporters are Democrats?
If they aren’t they can feel free to contact me and I’ll do a correction. But we both know they’re Democrats given how Democrats drive from the workplace all people who refuse to mindlessly adhere to Democrat positions.
So what haven’t Democrats destroyed?
Good question.