The things people will write in order to score an appearance on Bill Maher’s show.
If you have a strong stomach for concern trolling on the Op-Ed page on the New York Times and have actually done a little reading, you may find this little piece by Bari Weiss amusing.
It would make one weary to sort out the ideological contradictions and overgeneralizations, but it is fascinating in that it is the kind of reactionary benchmark necessary to measure the level of MSM discourse.
However, there is a charming response by the Twitterverse to her pwning herself with a RWNJ fake antifa website as proof that liberals are fascists (see Jonah Goldberg), and doing some creative revisionist history about her college activism.
Her drivel does fall into the Bret Stephens and David Brooks category of flying too close to pure ignorance and falling to earth, aided by the New York Times.
It is instructive in showing how reactionary discourse reproduces itself and that there are Laura Ingrahams in every generation; undergraduate reactionaries do have audiences, probably with many hipsters, unconcerned by fact-checking.
OTOH, this was an adequate audition piece for Dysentery if one remembers the Woody Allen quip about the merger of Dissent and Commentary.
New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss — a self-described Iraq War-supporting “outspoken Zionist” — took a narrative from the alt-right in her newest column, and used Tweets from a phony account in order to do it.
The op-ed, which suggests the political left is intolerant and does not believe in free speech on campus “at all,” used two tweets from a fake “Antifa” account run by online trolls to prove that young leftists were attacking new-right personality Dave Rubin for being anti-LGBTQ, despite the fact that he is gay.
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Given her history, it shouldn’t surprise readers that the isn’t even the first time the New York Times opinion section’s most recent Wall Street Journal transfer was duped by the right-wing trolls. In a piece defending fellow-Zionist Ben “Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage” Shapiro, Weiss described political organizer Joey Gibson as “just a conservative,” which was an attempt at protecting the Daily Wire editor’s reputation by suggesting leftists are simply accusing any ol’ right-winger of racism.
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