South Odreria 2 wrote:It’s good to know that I’m “the people who are now in charge” and a “metropolitan elite” because I don’t put up with this lady’s crap.
People, and I am not accusing you of this, like to imagine themselves to be free thinkers because they get together and circlejerk the ravings of a baboon.
Also, no one is denying her claims? Considering she has rarely if ever told the truth I do not automatically believe her.
Well, journalists and editorial staff working at the New York Times are like the exemplar 'metropolitan cultural elite.' It's pretty clear they're now in charge from the flurry of stories coming out of there these past few weeks. I'm not accusing you of that (unless you work at the NYT)
Wait who's the baboon in this analogy lol
This seems genuinely like one of those weird cases of mobs singling out a victim for punishment, except this behaviour looks to be becoming socially acceptable. The vitriol one sees on twitter (from the same kind of milieu as many NYT journos, so I assume that rhetoric spills over into the workplace) about her is crazy, she can't possibly deserve it, though as I say I don't really know her from Adam. I haven't seen anyone claim these accusations of bullying/harassment are false, only 'taken out of proportion' or just 'deserved.'
Nilokeras wrote:Thanatttynia wrote:This is just open/shut workplace harassment. It's interesting that no-one is disputing the events she describes - they are saying she deserves them, she deserves to be bullied. This is ostensibly because she is a Zionist but she has also been working the culture war beat for a long time, 'from the wrong side' afaik.
We're not privy to all the details of course but certainly her colleagues have disputed her characterization of events before - Weiss attempted to characterize the internal debate about the Tom Cotton editorial as a 'civil war' and was widely rebuked on Twitter by people at the NY Times for overreacting. Besides which there's a power element here that is worth considering - she's an editor and staff columnist. That her younger colleagues dislike and don't respect her doesn't inherently make it harassment, especially if she has more institutional power and influence than they do.
That incident seems like it led pretty directly to this. It could be that she was exaggerating for whatever reason, or it could be that the NYT staff didn't like her characterisation bc they want to see themselves as being the underdogs despite actually controlling the institution (standard liberal malaise.)
The power angle I would be more sympathetic to if it weren't for Weiss' isolation on this. So far I've seen one other NYT contributor come out in support of her, which is not exactly indicative of a workplace culture in which friendly disagreement is tolerated or dissent from the majority opinion appreciated. Plenty more people within the industry basically saying she got what she deserved for being wrong or a Karen or harmful or whatever
It also seems pretty clear that she doesn't have more institutional power nor influence than her 'haters' (proper word escapes me im kinda tired) bc, well, she's out (along with a few other high profile 'old guard' figures) and they're in.