The New Guard Touts “Safetyism” As A Right.

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.
This 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?

Poetrooper and AW1 Rod send.

NYT Writer Describes ‘Civil War’ Raging Within Company, Says One Side Believes In ‘Safetyism’ Over ‘Free Speech’

By: Shelby Talcott

The New York Times staff is apparently in the midst of a “civil war” between two groups, with one side pushing for the idea of “safetyism,” NYT reporter Bari Weiss tweeted following public clashes over an op-ed published Wednesday.

NYT employees openly rebelled against the publication’s decision to publish Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling for the U.S. military to be deployed in an effort to “restore order” amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.

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 “The Old Guard” and “The New Guard.” She described the situation as a fight “between the (mostly young) wokes [and] the (mostly 40+) liberals,” adding that other publications across the country reportedly are in the midst of similar fights.

“The dynamic is always the same,” Weiss explained. “The 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.”

“The New Guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by @JonHaidt and @glukianoff,” Weiss continued. “They call it ‘safetyism,’ in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech.”

This apparent “safetyism” appeared to be on full display amid the op-ed fight, as many staffers tweeted the same message: “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger.” Weiss described “safetyism” as an ideology that some of the staffers want.

Weiss continued on to write that it was unsurprising that this battle had “exploded into public view,” although she expected it to take longer. She pushed back on being “mocked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars.”

“They 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,” Weiss wrote.

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This should go well. Read the entire article here: Daily Caller

Thanks to Poe and Rod.

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