There are only so many outlets, and while these individuals have the ability to write in them, they have no intention of sharing that space or acknowledging their role in perpetuating a culture of fear and silence among writers who, for the most part, do not look like the majority of the signatories. Nowhere in the response letter does it say "CANCEL GOOD! What’s perhaps even more grating to many of the signatories is that a critique of their long held views is persuasive.What the signatories are describing are things that have happened to journalists, academics, and authors marginalized by their respective industries for years — just not in the ways the signatories want to highlight. Do you think the response is wrong about the particular derived example cases? This sub was created in response to mass bannings, suppression of … 2.0k members in the samharrisorg community. When Black and brown writers are hired by prominent media institutes, In fact, a number of the signatories have made a point of punishing people who have spoken out against them, including Bari Weiss (who Rowling, one of the signers, has spouted transphobic and transmisogynist rhetoric, mocking the idea that trans men could exist, and Jesse Singal, another signer, is a cis man infamous for advancing his career by writing derogatorily about trans issues.
Some examples, in no particular order:Additionally, the top ten banned young adult books in 2019 are ones that feature trans main characters, as journalist Katelyn Burns has pointed out.Black, brown, and trans professors have been harassed by conservative websites, threatened, and had careers ruined for speaking about our own experiences or confronting systemic racism.Black and brown journalists have been barred from writing on certain topics because of our perceived lack of “objectivity” for decades.That's not a good argument for why it's OK to silence privileged people (assuming, I'd like to point out something that seems contradictory to me regarding this letter and identity politics.They mention that one of the main signatories is Thomas Chatterson Williams, a black man. When Black and brown writers are hired by prominent media institutes, NDAs and social media policies are used to prevent them from talking about toxic workplace experiences.Personally, I think that when we look at problems, we're often pulled to do so through the lens of prominent figures. They acknowledge that he is a minority, then use the line Hold up, did you catch what they did there?
On the whole this is an extremely unpersuasive letter.Particularly unpersuasive, a recurrent theme of this letter is that "privileged group A is complaining about being silenced, but black/brown/trans people haven't had the same opportunities to speak." A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate.
It just wasn't "woke" enough for them.Do you see that that TLDR isn't what's being challenged by the response? Most of us have reputations, platforms, security. It signals to allies that he This letter is hard to get past the open -- which commits the same egregious straw-man argument that the prior rebuttal letter discussed here did (see: The letter asserts that the Harper letter was about protecting the the signers (or as the other rebuttal claimed: "coddling elites") -- as opposed being about the uptick in out-of-control cancel culture generally.The signatories...argue that they are afraid of being silenced, that so-called cancel culture is out of control, and that they fear for their jobs and free exchange of ideas, even as they speakThat's not the letter I read. The problem they are describing is for the most part a rare one for privileged writers, but it is constant for the voices that have been most often shut out of the room. This is a place to share and discuss content related to History, Politics, Media, Anarchism, Linguistics … The signatories claim that “journalists are barred from writing on certain topics.”Here, they could be talking about how just last month, at theThe signatories claim that “professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class.” This could be a reference to The signatories claim that a researcher was “fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study.” This is likely about David Shor, who tweeted a summary of The signatories claim that “the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.” This is so vague that it seems hard to pick out a specific example, although in Not only is there no significant evidence of inappropriate censure linking these instances, it’s unclear what examples the authors, some of whom are considered writing icons, are even drawing from to make their point.
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