It's a major violation of journalistic protocol to favor one side of a dispute over the other so blatantly. But the fact that supporters of Palestine can support their cause blatantly in public while those of Israel cannot suggests clearly that activists have drawn a line in the sand that they would give their lives not to cross.
I am wondering whatever happened to editors and publishers defending their writers? Why even publish anything if shifting political winds will so easily sway hand-wringing decision makers to retract writing? It appears Joanna Chen was the PERFECT person to weigh in on such a complicated subject. In the world of popular censorship, there are no gray areas - it's a clear-cut, Zero Sum game. There's no room for people like Chen who have had the guts to agonize in public, rather than to bleat "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad". I applaud her, and suggest publications like Guernica are a waste of time reading, OR writing for. Because for them, nuance is a dirty word.
A chilling example of the stultifying group think and ideologically-driven intolerance that bedevils many of those who like to describe themselves as 'progressive'. The obsession with imperialism and 'white settler colonialism' is a marked feature of this kind of thinking based, as it is, on a very one-dimensional interpretation of history.
Just read the names of the first two to resign. Middle Eastern Arabs no doubt with both fet firmly in the Hamas camp, and should be nowhere near a democratic publication
It's a major violation of journalistic protocol to favor one side of a dispute over the other so blatantly. But the fact that supporters of Palestine can support their cause blatantly in public while those of Israel cannot suggests clearly that activists have drawn a line in the sand that they would give their lives not to cross.
I am wondering whatever happened to editors and publishers defending their writers? Why even publish anything if shifting political winds will so easily sway hand-wringing decision makers to retract writing? It appears Joanna Chen was the PERFECT person to weigh in on such a complicated subject. In the world of popular censorship, there are no gray areas - it's a clear-cut, Zero Sum game. There's no room for people like Chen who have had the guts to agonize in public, rather than to bleat "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad". I applaud her, and suggest publications like Guernica are a waste of time reading, OR writing for. Because for them, nuance is a dirty word.
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/define-hate-speech
A chilling example of the stultifying group think and ideologically-driven intolerance that bedevils many of those who like to describe themselves as 'progressive'. The obsession with imperialism and 'white settler colonialism' is a marked feature of this kind of thinking based, as it is, on a very one-dimensional interpretation of history.
Yes this is the Left today. No one should be surprised.
Just read the names of the first two to resign. Middle Eastern Arabs no doubt with both fet firmly in the Hamas camp, and should be nowhere near a democratic publication
Complete disaster
How does The Daily Wire, Shapiro and Owen’s firing shape up against the same benchmark