[Barrin92]

In this particular case the author argues from her particular experience in her workplace without providing any evidence, so I think it's pretty relevant to take such things into account because she might be exaggerating.

I'm not exactly inclined to take someone's purely personal criticisms at face value if they have engaged in the same behaviour.

For all we know she might be leaving on bad terms and is taking it out on her coworkers who may have a different story to tell.

[DavidSJ]

I agree, as someone who is concerned about "cancel culture" broadly, and found Weiss's resignation later interesting and noteworthy, that her credibility as a witness is a relevant consideration in this situation, since she is asking us to believe her accounts of the internal politics at the New York Times. She isn't just making an argument based on publicly available facts.

I would appreciate a better source for the claim that Weiss tried to get a professor at Columbia fired than that article by Glenn Greenwald. I dug through it (admittedly a bit quickly, so maybe I missed something), and could only find evidence that she was harshly critical of a Columbia professor, but not that she attempted to get him fired. It's also noteworthy that some or all of her criticism of that professor concerned not his expressed opinions, but the way he (allegedly) berated Israeli students in his classroom.

Ironically, I haven't generally found Greenwald himself to be the most reliable narrator, but that discussion would take us far afield.

[zzzeek]

they absolutely do have a different story to tell and it has been told over and over again within the various twitter threads, in examples such as https://twitter.com/maxstrasser/status/1268636885989105665

[gfodor]

If you read my comment and interpreted it to mean “everything should be taken at face value” that is worth reflecting on.

[ideals]

Right, the parents complaint is essentially Spiderman_pointing_at_Spiderman.jpg

If the original complaint is a "dog whistle" then people will also respond the same way.

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