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Emails have been zipping around La Casa De AW1Ed today about a brand new Civil Right. It was conjured up at the NY Times by FNGs there in defiance of those older, more traditional liberal staff member’s dated ideals. Without being too much a spoiler, the New Guard is espousing the dominance of Safetyism, the Right To Feel Safe (RTFS) over, say, the right of Freedom Of Speech. Several of of us broke out our copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and checked. Nowhere was “Safetyism” mentioned, much alone ranked.
\nThis obvious lapse in the thinking of the Founders should be addressed immediately, and I highly encourage the New Guard to begin the process of amending the Constitution to rectify this omission. After all, this new RTFS can trump virtually ALL the amendments, so they should get right on it. How hard can it be?<\/p>\n
Poetrooper and AW1 Rod send.<\/p>\n
By: Shelby Talcott<\/strong><\/p>\n The New York Times staff is apparently in the midst of a \u201ccivil war\u201d between two groups, with one side pushing for the idea of \u201csafetyism,\u201d NYT reporter Bari Weiss tweeted following public clashes over an op-ed published Wednesday.<\/p>\n NYT employees openly rebelled against the publication\u2019s decision to publish Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton\u2019s op-ed calling for the U.S. military to be deployed in an effort to \u201crestore order\u201d amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n During the debacle, Weiss, a staff editor and NYT opinion writer, tweeted about the two sides currently at war within the company. Weiss named them as \u201cThe Old Guard\u201d and \u201cThe New Guard.\u201d She described the situation as a fight \u201cbetween the (mostly young) wokes [and] the (mostly 40+) liberals,\u201d adding that other publications across the country reportedly are in the midst of similar fights.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dynamic is always the same,\u201d Weiss explained. \u201cThe Old Guard lives by a set of principles we can broadly call civil libertarianism. They assumed they shared that worldview with the young people they hired who called themselves liberals and progressives. But it was an incorrect assumption.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe New Guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by @JonHaidt and @glukianoff,\u201d Weiss continued. \u201cThey call it \u2018safetyism,\u2019 in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n This apparent \u201csafetyism\u201d appeared to be on full display amid the op-ed fight, as many staffers tweeted the same message: \u201cRunning this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger.\u201d Weiss described \u201csafetyism\u201d as an ideology that some of the staffers want.<\/p>\n Weiss continued on to write that it was unsurprising that this battle had \u201cexploded into public view,\u201d although she expected it to take longer. She pushed back on being \u201cmocked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey told me it was a sideshow. But this was always why it mattered: The people who graduated from those campuses would rise to power inside key institutions and transform them,\u201d Weiss wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n People like this.<\/p>\n