Posted on 07/07/2020 4:18:18 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Signatures include J.K. Rowling, Bari Weiss, Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem
Liberal writers, professors and activists have come together and signed an open letter in the hopes of ending "cancel culture."
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss and political activist Noam Chomsky are a few of more than 100 names attached to the piece titled "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" that was published Tuesday in Harper's Magazine.
"Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial," the letter begins. "Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts."
"But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second."
While the letter calls President Trump a "real threat to democracy," it also warns that the resistance should not "harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion," insisting that an "intolerant climate" has plagued both sides of the aisle.
"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted," the letter explains. "While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters.se to perceived transgressions of speech and thought."
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A couple of years ago I heard Bari Weiss speak and answer questions in front of an adoring audience. This was shortly after President Trump announced the US Embassy to Israel would move to Jerusalem. Weiss said that this was something she had long hoped for, but that she “did not want it to be done by him.” At that time she was being touted by the NYT as a conservative, so that they could say we have a conservative columnist. I realized that the conservative moniker was just her gimmick.
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Old People are the first to get beat down by Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
What does a linguist do at a technology institute?
You set loose these furies and they are eating cuvilization and you alive.
So NOW you want the genie back in the bottle?
Pshaw! Logic has been eliminated by YOU, Noam Chomsky. May the mob burn you down first.
The Democrats in charge do not want the laws enforced. The Democrat judges will release the lawless. They go back Jack and do it again....
Running scared. Too late, losers.
Great post!
Won’t they love being ruled by the “most superior” minority—the handicapped, transgender black female identifying as a green unicorn US president?
They can all stick a red hot poker up where the sun don’t shine.
Oh thank God. The modern h g wells.
Trump is a threat to mob rule, aka, democracy. Isn’t the US a “republic”
I’m a Canadian, so give me a little leeway...
bkmk
The “liberal writers” are all mentally ill brain damaged a**holes.
The tiger that they thought they had by the tail is turning on them.
The “real threat to democracy” are those who assert that PT is a threat to democracy.
“Political activist” Noam Chomsky? BS. He’s a hardcore Marxist lunatic. Only the Stupid Left would call him a “political activist” but some Fox writers don’t know dick about who our enemies on the “Liberal Left” really are.
For instance, Norman Mailer was a Marxist, even called that by his former wife. Leonard Bernstein was once a member of the Communist Party and did a major fundraiser for the police-killing Black Panther Party.
I.F. Izzy Isadore Stone was a Soviet KGB paid propagandist and onetime member of the CPUSA.
Look at most of the “Hollywood 10”. Most were hardcore CPUSA members and later frontline supporters.
Wash. Post “Watergate” writer is a proud “Red Diaper” baby, meaning his parents were CPUSA hardcore members (It’s in his book).
Lots of Hollywood Liberals were really covert Party members including Zero Mostel (a great actor), Prof. Irwin Corey (CPUSA), Howard DaSilva (CPUSA, ‘1776’, the original play and film), etc. Communists, not “liberals”.
Time for honest writers to learn a little history, even at FOX news.
Because Soros told them that.
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