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These are people with large platforms, successful careers, and scads of cash. Among those Weiss cites as members are the conservative writer and speaker Ben Shapiro, whose podcast gets 15 million downloads a month the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, whose self-help book is a bestseller and whose youtube videos get millions of views New Atheist Sam Harris, who also has a very successful podcast and critic of feminism, Christina Hoff Sommers, who has a sinecure at AEI. The I.D.W., as it is referred to throughout the piece, is a loose affiliation of very successful left-hating pundits who strenuously claim to be oppressed.
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The latest foray into this redefinition of free speech can be found in Weiss’ most recent piece in the New York Times Magazine, about a self-styled group of pseudo-intellectuals dubbed the “Intellectual Dark Web.” The Times seems obsessed with finding victims of so called silencing. Bret Stephens chastises leftists for criticizing right wing commentator Kevin Williamson David Brooks bemoans leftist campus protests, and Bari Weiss often does the same. Reading the New York Times’ op-ed page, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the most dangerous threat to free speech is leftist totalitarians who criticize or protest against the right.