Andrew Sage

And so they created what they would call, I guess, a new ideology, but was really a continuation of centuries-old strategies, this time rebranded as Anti-Woke.

One of the avatars of Anti-Woke was Barry Weiss.

Barry Weiss, who was at the New York Times at the time, was an ideological diversity hire, which is to say, affirmative action for white conservatives, as affirmative action has only existed in the figments of the minds of conservatives.

She was given a cozy make-work job at the beginning of the Trump administration as an opinion staff editor and writer for the New York Times.

She was hired specifically to bring in more Trumpian figures into the opinion section.

This is, and I cannot emphasize this enough, this is the fever dream of affirmative action in the conservative mind, right?

And these are going to be a bunch of people who really hate affirmative action, right?

But again, what they are being given, they are being handed by the most important newspaper probably in the entire world.

You know, she was handed a job because she was a fucking right-winger.

Now, Weiss was part of the, shall we say, conversations at the New York Times about, again, whether or not a newspaper should print a letter from a sitting U.S.

representative calling for the deployment of U.S.

soldiers against the American people.

And she saw this as an opportunity not to resist a obviously tyrannical program by, again, a sitting member of the United States government.

She saw this as her moment to do a grift.

Now, in this moment, she resigned from the New York Times in a huff, raving about the, quote, lack of ideological diversity.

who had a giant rant about how the Twitter is not the masthead of the New York Times, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Which again, I kind of emphasize this enough, like that he was brought in as a right-wing affirmative action hire in order to appease the demand from like the ruling class, I guess, for like pro-Trump people.

They already had a bunch of right-wingers.

This is completely unhinged.

But, you know, she resigns, and she has this big press tour in the right-wing press trying to talk about how she was cancelled.