Should People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?

Should we celebrate Weiss for accepting what until recently stood as universals as she supports the power-obsessed ideologies that inevitably lead to the anti-freedom, cancel-culture bullying that she decries?

Will O'Toole of Otoons

The American Spectator  "Bari Weiss, a liberal hired by the New York Times strangely to bring balance to its left-wing opinion page in the wake of the paper’s misreading of the 2016 electorate, publicized her resignation this week.
"Thirty-something editor Weiss wrote 30-something publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger that “the lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society — have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
“ 'Everyone I knew was voting for Hillary Clinton,” she told podcaster Joe Rogan last year. She exudes identity politics but rationalizes this by claiming a distinction between “good identity politics” and “bad identity politics” (she goes for the former). She uses words like “cisgender” and “transphobic” (because everyone with their ear to the MAGA ground knows the “cisgender” and “transphobic” lingo on the lips of every red-hat wearer). She divulges, “I definitely consider myself a feminist.” Most telling of all, she suffers from the pseudointellectual tic of affixing the one-word question “Right?” to every declarative sentence as though it negates the authoritarianism of declarative sentences by Jedi Mind Tricking the listener into hearing democratic consensus when confronted with an individual opinion.Yet, hiring Weiss, an unabashed anti when it comes to Donald Trump, to offset the paper’s biases against that chunk of the population who voted for the president seems like a greater indictment against the Old Gray Lady’s slant than Weiss’s departure. A bisexual living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side who supports abortion, the repeal of the Second Amendment, a porous border, and so many other left-wing articles of faith strikes as a strange counterweight in that she sits in the scale’s cup that gravity already had pulled to the bottom." . . .