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| Bari Weiss and her grifting pals. But they are all making sooooo much money as courtiers for racist, democracy-hating billionaire fascists. I guess that means they "know exactly what they are doing." -------------------------------------------------------------- |
Weiss knows what she's doing in the sense that she knows how to be the best, most grotesque courtier ever to right-wing techno-fascist billionaires like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen who are trying to destroy American democracy to avoid paying taxes.
It's called "being a grifter."
She's a right-wing political operative pretending to be a journalist. She's trying to do what her paymasters want her to do: move the Overton window by portraying right-wing views as centrist.
Something her good pal, racist right-winger Claire Lehmann likes to talk about. And something the NYTimes is doing its best to help her achieve.
Weiss and the NYTimes are utterly disgusting.
More of my opinions about Bari Weiss and her equally disgusting wife.
Jerry Seinfeld is apparently a member of the Bari Weiss right-wing racist club
The Washington Post slams Bari Weiss's grifter wife
The Free Press - the right-wing racist Bari Weiss grift
Where it all started - when Bari Weiss promoted a gang of racists and Peter Thiel employees known as the Intellectual Dark Web: Why Pinker? Why Pinkerite? Blame Bari Weiss.
Not all corporate media loves Bari Weiss, fortunately. While googling "Bari Weiss" and "grifter" I found this fun New Republic article My Night Among Bari Weiss’s Free Speech Warriors:
By now, most of the very online are familiar with Weiss’s schtick. The intellectual dark-web doyenne presides over a lucrative media empire centered on The Free Press, technically the most popular newsletter on Substack with over 600,000 subscribers, upward of 77,000 of them paying at least $8 a month. That reach and income have allowed Weiss to run The Free Press as much more than a newsletter: It has a staff, columists, podcasts—including a sympathetic platform for J.K. Rowling—and, naturally, events. The brand forcefully represents itself as a forum for people and ideas that have passed their sell-by date in today’s more enlightened and politically sensitive times, or, as their About page puts it, “We focus on stories that are ignored or misconstrued in the service of an ideological narrative.” You can argue among yourselves whether Rowling has really found herself without other outlets to air her grievances—at The Free Press, this is as canonical as the whole of her Wizarding World.
And of course this classic from Gentlemen's Quarterly, 2018: The Free Speech Grifters
Two days prior, Weiss's column titled "We're All Fascists Now" highlighted the protest of a Christina Hoff Sommers talk at Lewis & Clark Law School, the latest example in an overexposed series of well-meaning college students acting like morons. It was riddled with misrepresentations. To frame the debate as another instance of the liberals attacking fellow liberals, Weiss described Ms. Sommers as a "self-identified" feminist and a "registered" Democrat. To that end, she withheld from readers Sommers's more relevant professional affiliation: resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, the neoconservative think tank, which counts feminist Democrat heroes Dick Cheney and Dinesh D'Souza among its past fellows.
Among the Free Speech Grifters, Sommers has perfected the art. She likes to call herself a feminist, specifically a "factual" one. But if there has been one feminist cause worth addressing in the past 30 years, you wouldn't know it by reading her work. She has had plenty to say on how biological preferences may account for gender distribution in STEM fields, while she's been silent on harassment of women in tech and finance. And she's been outspoken about the due-process rights of men accused of rape on college campuses, but apparently has no interest in addressing the complexity of a crime that is notoriously difficult to prove.
