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nadezhda's avatar

I appreciate the time and thoughtfulness you devoted to the podcast. I fear, however, you’re being far too generous to Bari Weiss. The podcast would never have been released if she hadn’t succeeded in making the white woman, who exploited racial identity in an objectively dangerous manner, the victim and the black man the villain. She makes her living being a noisy, self-righteous opponent of “identity “ and “cancel culture,” all while being a notorious abuser of both, often with herself as the star victim. The script is always written in advance - the Jewish person is the unfair victim of the Palestinian activist, the white person the unfair victim of the black person. We’ve watched her produce the same movie over and over. “Honestly” we don’t need any sequels, but because the NYT handled both her hiring and departure in a catastrophic manner, she became a “heroine” of ”liberal values” in the “wokeness” battles. It’s now her grift, so we’re stuck with her polluting The Discourse for decades to come.

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My take away from the podcast is that this has little to do with race, blame, villain, victim. It more about narrative, full view perspective and journalistic integrity (or lack thereof) of mainstream media today. The type of dialogue, critique and consideration of nuance happening in this very comment section is what I think Kmele (and perhaps Weiss) were going for. I know a lot of attention and feedback (good and bad) have been directed at Bari. I don't think that's fair. While she may have had a journalistic hand in this, it is very clear this podcast and the work that went into it belongs to Kmele. I follow Kmele on twitter, listen to his 5th column podcast, read his work...while he certainly hold a perspective on current events that is not particularly popular, he's incredibly smart. His work is usually very nuanced, driven by facts and good (not necessarily popular) information. But now I sound super biased...so I'll stop here. But thank you all for such insightful discourse. Keep it up!

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