Andrew Sage

The actual ideology that was so dangerous it had to be destroyed was this.

If the premise of 2020 is true, which is that the U.S.

is a structurally racist country founded on slavery and genocide, and that reproduces those same violences through the prison system, which, you know, has legal slavery in it from the structure of the 13th Amendment, and reproduces it again through the police, then the American project is indefensible.

And here there be dragons.

The ruling class needed to move to stop it.

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.