The toothpaste is out of the tube and can't be put back in! TOO LATE!
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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I wouldn’t touch Noam Chomsky with a thousand foot pole.
Thanks for that.
Says it all.
Yeah it was fun and a great tool to suppress people who we do not like but now we are targetted it’s no longer okay.
The toothpaste is out of the tube and can't be put back in! TOO LATE!
"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."
How ironic - the first, that they adore, directly causes the second, which they deplore - so they put themselves in a loop.
I wondered about Chomsky also. However, he strikes me as a gutless individual when the fireworks start.
Chomsky may lack fortitude but his translational grammar theories are found everywhere in the language of the post modern marxists.
I doubt anyone wants to read anything additional about the reprehensible POS Chomsky, so...
Chomsky was recruited to the far left as a child in the 1930s by relatives active in the Soviet-controlled International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. He drifted towards anarcho-syndicalism, which allowed him to posture as a non-Stalinist while still serving Marxist ends. He was one of the earliest Vietnam War protestors in the United States, and the Vietcong included him on a list of sympathizers they used to distribute propaganda during the Vietnam War. He became a Pol Pot apologist in the 1970s, a Sandinista supporter in the 1980s, a promoter of East Timorese independence in the 1990s, and an ally of Muslim terrorists in the 2000s, and a supporter of the Occupy movement in the 2010s. He’s been involved in debates among Marxists over whether it’s more strategic to support Bernie Sanders or Hillary/Biden. If he’s opposed to “cancel culture,” it’s because he’s on one side of an internal division among Marxists.
Surprised even radical Chomsky is in there...
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