Insider Bari Weiss Casts Blame, Cuts and Runs—again
I would never again subscribe to the New York Times, or bother reading it
a regular basis because of the devastating lies its writers and editors (its
establishment) published seventeen years ago that caused unspeakable destruction,
death, and injury to Iraq, its lands and its people—casualties and the specter
of crimes that continue, with impunity, throughout Iraq and the Middle East. I also won’t weep for Weiss.
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ari Weiss is a part of that establishment, an employee turned disgruntled,
victim-claiming employee, who—not for the first time—pouts, cuts and runs when
she doesn’t get her own way. She and Donald John have a lot in common.
Wikipedia sources report
that Ms. Weiss was an out and proud “ardent” and “unhinged” “Zionist” who, in
her university years (it is unclear what
degree she obtained), cofounded a group that claimed university professors
were intimidating students who expressed “pro-Israel” views. She claimed fear
of or intimidation by one particular professor, Dr. Joseph Andoni Massad.
Dr. Massad is a native
of Jordan, a Columbia University professor of modern Arab politics and
intellectual history in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and
African Studies. He is a Columbia University PhD graduate in political science
and, reportedly, a descendant of Palestinian Christians.
His books include Colonial effects: the making of national
identity in Jordan (2001); The
Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
(2006), and Islam in Liberalism
(2015).
A CU committee investigating Weiss’s Columbia University charges found “no
evidence of any statements made by the faculty that could reasonably be
construed as anti-Semitic.”
The New York Civil Liberties Union found it was actually the group
Weiss cofounded that had “threatened academic freedom at the university, by
leveling baseless accusations against Muslim professors and pushing the
University to fire critics of Israel.”
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eiss in Brief
While it is unclear what degree Weiss has earned, her Israeli
credentials and musical chairs profile are clear:
- Before Columbia, she grew up in a separatist neighborhood of Pittsburgh and was a frequent young visitor to Israel. She is a graduate of a formerly all-male prep school in suburban Pittsburgh.
- After Columbia University, the Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem took her on as a “fellow” aka an intern (2007-2008).
- After a couple of years with what appears to be a Catholic publication abroad, the Wall Street Journal took her back this time for about four years as one of its book editors.
- Somewhere during her movements, Ms Weiss married and unmarried a “Toilets for People” maker.
- In 2017, the New York Times employed her in its opinion section.
Now, she seems to have leaped from the NYT chair (somewhat echoing her
Columbia performance) on the grounds of they don’t like me “victimhood.”
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eiss’s yarn landed in the LA Times “Entertainment” section
(a few excerpts)
- Mindboggling sentence
Weiss: “The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those
living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the
lives of most people. This is a galaxy in which, to choose just a few recent
examples, the Soviet space program is lauded for its ‘diversity’; the doxxing
of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in
human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
Wikipedia on “doxing”
(or doxxing, from “dox,” abbrev. of documents: the Internet-based
practice of researching and publicly broadcasting private or identifying
information (especially personally identifying information) about an individual
or organization
Closely related to
Internet vigilantism and ‘hacktivism,’
Methods used to acquire information
include
- searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook),
- hacking, and
- social engineering.
Some of Doxing’s aims
to inflict harm
to harass
to commit online
shame
to commit extortion
to commit coercion
to contribute to business
analysis or risk analytics
to assist law
enforcement or vigilantism
- “Zionist” name calls “tribalist”
Weiss: [T]he lessons that ought to have followed the
election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the
necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of
ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus
has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth
isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an
enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
- Colleagues just “don’t like me”
Weiss: They have called me a Nazi and a racist
- My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in.
- [S]ome coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly ‘inclusive’ one
- [O]thers post ax emojis next to my name.
- Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”
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hat’s a “poor” “victim” to do?
Conditions beings what they are, Ms. Bari Weiss will likely land in
Donald John’s Cabinet. The Trumpster is particularly fond of public spectacles
(among other things), as he, himself, is loud and proud—leading daily headlines
in all major media—as America’s most (in)
famous showman.
The trick of the showman, even a bad one: what you see never is what is.
Things are never what they seem.
Sources
Wikipedia “Bari Weiss” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
Wikipedia “Squirrel Hill” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Hill_(Pittsburgh)
Wikipedia Shady Side Academy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady_Side_Academy
Bari Weiss Home Page: “Resignation Letter,” https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Los Angeles Times “Journalist Bari Weiss skewers New York Times in her
resignation letter” July 14, 2020 Nardine Saad, staff writer
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-07-14/bari-weiss-new-york-times-resignation
Wikipedia “Doxing” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
Wikipedia "Slack channel"
- Developed by American software company Slack Technologies, Slack is a
proprietary business communication platform offering many IRC [Internet Relay
Chat application layer protocol that facilitates communication in text form]-style
features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic,
private groups, and direct messaging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
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