There is a difference, say, between internet pushback against Establishment figures (e.g.
New York Times columnists with consistently bad takes) and trying to get Palestinian professors fired—both of which apply to Bari Weiss, who is ironically a signatory of the letter in
Harper’s. Likewise, J.K. Rowling never missed an opportunity to slander opponents of Jeremy Corbyn as “anti-Semites”—and careers were ruined over that canard. But hypocrisy is, as they say, the tithe vice pays you virtue, and the NPR tote bag
“We Are the Left” letter was worse than hypocritical, but rather a lib regurgitation of anti-left slanders and glib use of historical examples, wedded to an HR-department-style use of overly psychological views of bigotry of the sort Matt Taibbi
rightfully eviscerates..
As for
Poetry, it was grimly hilarious to see Don Share
sent to get his shine box after setting himself up as a paragon of the most insufferable brand of the stuff. One imagines him arriving in the Cancellation Gulag like a recently purged ex-GPU station chief forced to bunk with the Trotskyists, Zinovievites, and Bukharinites who’ve been there for years.