Lucy Biggers

Because I would get my head chopped off by the group think.

Even if it was never an over threat, right?

Because you would just see in the Slack channel what was an appropriate opinion to have.

And anything that was slightly moderate or...

pushing against this would very much get shouted down by the vocal, most vocal, most extreme groups in the, you know, most vocal employees in the group.

And so it wasn't a conscious thing.

You know, it's just a bunch of 20 somethings kind of just figuring out what is okay.

And again, this is a very millennial 20 something newsroom in the 20 teens.

the virus has left the lap at this point.

And I think this ideology is now at the New York Times.

We know this.

It's like the woke stuff that we talk about.

But I was just in it.

I didn't question it.

And it just subverted everything in my worldview, right?

Where it's like, I grew up,

two-parent household in Connecticut, like, idyllic American life.

Like, I have family who, like, fought in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, whatever.

I have a lot of, like, national pride.

And all of a sudden, I... Because of this ideology, I was like, I can't have pride in any of that.