by Oui
Wed Oct 8th, 2025 at 08:47:26 AM EST
"Israel advocacy a good career move" - Mondoweiss in 2017.
Articles @EuroTrib on the fall and rise of Bari Weiss ...
Jordan Peterson, Social Media and Rise of Alt-right | 13 Nov. 2018 |
I'll have to agree with generic on this one.
"psychological background"
No, Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor. From what I have read, that is where his professional knowledge and experience lies. The podcasts and crowdfunding in recent years deliver quite a few bucks to keep the envelop moving forward.
From personal experience over more than a decade I have seen too many professional psychologists and psychiatrists in the profession due to damage from early youth or in the family genealogy. Some persons use the study to help find oneself or explain major issues from their youth.
Jordan Peterson has political issues with Marxism, totalitarianism and the genocidal deaths of millions under Communist regimes in the 20th century Soviet Union and China. Apparently he has come to the conclusion left is dangerous and right is OK. What makes a person tick to transform into a bloody killer. Has Peterson written about the Vietnam War, Cambodia intervention, Central and South America, Abu Ghraib and Iraq, Libya and Syrian intervention? I would place Peterson in the realm of Bernard-Henri Levy.
Peterson is a psychobabbler using social media to gain notoriety, and not through his peers, on his favorite topic of today: the deplorables of Donald Trump.
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The rise of YouTube's reactionary right | Vox by Ezra Klein |
How demographic change and YouTube's algorithms are building a new right.
(On Bari Weiss, a quote ...)
Weiss's piece described something real and important, but it had trouble defining their ideology, in large part because it was overly credulous. Here, for instance, is her explanation of what unites this community:
They all share three distinct qualities. First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject: religion, abortion, immigration, the nature of consciousness. Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what's politically convenient. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought -- and have found receptive audiences elsewhere.
This is definitely what the members of this community say about themselves. But spend some time listening to Dave Rubin call progressivism "a mental disorder," or emailing with Sam Harris -- a New Atheist author and podcaster in this community -- and you find the commitment to civility or even debate is pretty thin.
[The good old days with 6 recommends 😂]
Social-Democrats and Leftists Need to Fight Back | 3 Jan. 2020 |
Smearing of progressives has become part of a new doctrine by populist rightwing politicians, media and the twitter rage. As the election results begin to shift due to social media bots and pressure groups, we should not only take notice but fight against the libel campaign. I've written about this phenomena in modern society for many years now. I must conclude that the propaganda has gone mainstream and needs to be halted. After the surprise win by Trump with alt-right support, The New York Times hired a new crowd of populist, rightwing proponents for the quick news cycle to feed the Trump supporters.
Jerusalem Denial Complex | NYT OpEd by Bret Stephens |
Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss can't wait to call you an anti-Semite in 'The New York Times' | Mondoweiss - April 2, 2018 |
In a book review, Bret Stephens slagged Israel critics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt as bigots. In a throwaway line, Stephens wrote that Mearsheimer's "2001 magnum opus, 'The Tragedy of Great Power Politics,' was later overshadowed by his tendentious and bigoted screed, 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,' written with Stephen M. Walt."
So- two realist scholars at the University of Chicago and Harvard who argued that support for Israel is not in our national interest, and that neoconservatives had pushed the Iraq war for the sake of Israel's security -- they are bigots. And the Times offered no comment section on the piece for readers to question this clinker of viciousness from Stephens, a writer who has diagnosed the "disease of the Arab mind."
What is Weiss's evidence that the left is as anti-semitic as the nationalist right? An article in the Jewish Week saying French socialist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon is an anti-Semite because he: supports boycott of Israel, regards West Bank settlements as theft, condemned Israeli "war crimes" in the last Gaza massacre, and has attacked the French Israel lobby for rallying French citizens to serve a foreign flag. Weiss- who got her career rolling [Israel advocacy was both ideology and good career move] by attacking any candidate for tenure at Columbia who supported Palestinian rights- says leftists are giving a pass to anti-Semitism: "attacks on Jews have been explained away as politically motivated by events in the Middle East."
WSJ to Israel: Ignore World after Obama Betrayal | Arutz Sheva - 21 April 2015 |
Pulitzer-prize winner Bret Stephens advises Israel to return to days when it wasn't afraid to go 'rogue,' because US isn't the US anymore.
[Bret Stephens/Bari Weiss Israeli enablers of Gaza Genocide]
My original diary bemoaning Bret Stephens @BooMan fell on deaf ears and got me multiple troll ratings. A progressive community, blinded by uncritical love for HRC. Bernie Sanders got trampled by the DNC apparatchiks ...
I won't provide a link to his article as it isn't worth the attention it already got and one can find the link here @BooMan in a front-page "Open Thread" by Martin Longman. What disturbs me in that thread is the complete breakdown of civil discourse here at the Pond. The stated objective to introduce Bret Stephens at The New York Times reads as follows ...
IHRA is a Sham, and It's a Shame | Tikun Olam |
Bari Weiss Exits The NY Times | 16 July 2020 |
Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out ...
Bari Weiss' Resignation Letter from the New York Times
Bari Weiss on 'How to Fight Anti-Semitism' | Jewish Chronicle |
New York Times writer discusses why she focuses on left-wing and radical Islamic hatred more than right-wing ideology in book.
Keir Starmer and his Labour train rolling along pro-Israel tracks ...
Netanyahu "Optimistic" Israel Can Use Political Pressure To Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe | Mint Press - 25 Feb. 2020 |
Summary of Israel as a rogue state ...
Zionist Amalek Meets Christian Magog
Exclusive: How Karim Khan's Israel war crimes probe was derailed by threats, leaks and sex claims | MEE - 1 Aug. 2025 |
[work in progress ⚠️]
Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | The Guardian - Opinion |
Others were much harsher than Tofel in their criticism, noting that Paramount paid an astonishing $150m for Weiss’s site, Free Press. Paramount is led these days by David Ellison, the son of Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people, and Weiss is very much his pick to led CBS News; the corporate press release said she will, among other things, “reshape editorial priorities”. She will report directly to Ellison, rather than to the CBS News president, a more traditional arrangement.
“Like Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the deal can be understood as part of a broader elite project to smudge the lenses through which many people see the world,” wrote the Defector’s Patrick Redford. “By installing Weiss, the richest people in the world have taken another step toward ushering in the toothless, acquiescent future of mainstream media they’ve always wanted.”
Certainly, that is something that Trump and his allies have worked relentlessly for.
Redford called it “yet another victory of marketing over its natural enemy, journalism”.
As she took the helm, Weiss sent around a friendly-sounding note to the news staff that had one particularly notable line. Among her “core journalistic values”, she wrote, is “journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny”.
Sounds good, but the two parties are far from equal these days.
“CBS should brace for a heavy dose of bothsiderism,” wrote Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter, observing that the Free Press has, as its central thesis, “that Trump and his supporters are largely right about the cultural rot of the woke-elite” and liberal overreach (wokeness) is a bigger problem than Trump’s existential threats to American democracy.
As independent media gains influence, it may not matter very much any more who leads a major TV network. Certainly, it matters far less now than in the years when CBS ruled the airwaves.
But it is telling that Weiss – such a polarizing provocateur herself – has been chosen to reinvent the most mainstream of legacy networks at this fraught and dangerous time in the US.
Ex-New York Times writer to lead CBS after Paramount deal | BBC News |
The Rightwing Universe of Alternate Truths
Journalism Just Got A HUGE Win | Jordan Peterson |
