WSJ: We won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ: We won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure:

Their anxieties aren’t our responsibility in any case.

IOW, "Fuck off, snowflakes."

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ: We won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure:

which are more important than ever in what is a culture of growing progressive conformity and intolerance

Good way to phrase it!

[Jolly]

I'm not going to say the WSJ does not have bias. It does.

But is fairer than the NYT. Much fairer.

[Aqua Letifer]

That's incredibly encouraging to hear.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ: We won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure:

It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution. But we are not the New York Times. Most Journal reporters attempt to cover the news fairly and down the middle, and our opinion pages offer an alternative to the uniform progressive views that dominate nearly all of today’s media.

[Loki]

Can we see the leaked letter?

[jon-nyc]

yes, google it

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

What a boring letter.

[Loki]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ: We won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure:

I think it’s a fair letter as long as the same discipline is applied across the board. For example how much nonsense has the NYT reported that has been discussed here that is never retracted?

[Horace]

I wonder what the social dynamics of the signatories were. If the signatures were public and the set of people asked to sign was also public, there must have been enormous pressure to sign.