Bari Weiss, an opinion editor at The New York Times, quit her job on Tuesday with a public resignation letter that alleged harassment and a hostile work environment created by people who disagreed with her.
Bari Weiss said she was openly smeared and demeaned by colleagues at The New York Times who didn't fear their behaviour would be checked.
Bari Weiss, an opinion editor at The New York Times, quit her job on Tuesday with a public resignation letter that alleged harassment and a hostile work environment created by people who disagreed with her.
Andrew Sullivan, another prominent journalist who expressed concern that a 바카라woke바카라 culture is crowding out dissenting opinion, similarly announced his resignation from New York magazine.
Sullivan is a conservative columnist and Weiss is considered conservative by some, although she labels herself a centrist.
바카라Intellectual curiosity is now a liability at The Times,바카라 said Weiss, who was also a writer at the newspaper.
She was brought to the Times in 2017 by James Bennet, the opinion editor who lost his job in the aftermath of an op-ed published by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton that advocated using federal troops to quell unrest in the wake of George Floyd's death.
Some Black reporters at The Times said they felt endangered by the piece and they were supported by dozens of colleagues.
She wrote that she was hired to attract new voices to the Times in the wake of President Donald Trump's election, but that lessons from that time hadn't been learned.
바카라Instead, 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,바카라 she wrote.
She said she was openly smeared and demeaned by colleagues who didn't fear their behaviour would be checked.
"My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I바카라m 'writing about the Jews again'," she wrote.
바카라Showing up to work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery,바카라 Weiss wrote.
Kathleen Kingsbury, acting editorial page editor at the newspaper, said she wants to ensure that viewpoints from across the political spectrum are published.
The Times didn't address Weiss' specific harassment allegations.
바카라We're committed to fostering an environment of honest, searching and empathetic dialogue between colleagues, one where mutual respect is required of all,바카라 spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said.
On Twitter, Sullivan wrote that 바카라the mob바카라 bullied Weiss for thought crimes 바카라and her editors stood by and watched."
Later, he tweeted that he was resigning as a columnist at New York magazine for 바카라reasons that are pretty self-evident.바카라 He didn't specify those reasons but said he'll have a farewell column later this week and will continue his work elsewhere.
In a June 12 column titled 바카라Is There Still Room to Debate?바카라 Sullivan wrote about an increasingly furious campaign to quell dissent from the central idea that society's evils stem from discrimination against Blacks.
바카라In these past two weeks, if you didn't put up on Instagram or Facebook some kind of slogan or symbol displaying your wokeness, you were instantly suspect,바카라 he wrote.
David Haskell, editor-in-chief of New York magazine, said he and Sullivan both agreed that his ideas and the magazine's were no longer a match.
바카라While I found myself often disagreeing with his politics, I also found it valuable to be publishing work that challenged my thinking,바카라 he said in a memo to staff members.
He said he'll continue to push work that challenges the liberal assumptions of much of New York's readership, while acknowledging that such commentary is difficult to get right in 2020.