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Adrienne Scott's avatar

I'm not at all surprised.

After being a decades-long subscriber to the Times, this entire sordid incident with McNeil was the straw that caused me to cancel my subscription. I recently wrote a letter to the Washington Post, whose new editor has very noticeably made the paper more "woke," and said I would be cancelling that subscription as well if the paper continued to overtly push an agenda.

I feel like I am in a vise between two horrible extremes. Where do people get their news?

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Sasha Stone's avatar

In case anyone wonders what mass hysteria and subsequent witch hunts is like to live through - here you go. The idea that any white person is already a racist and waiting to be discovered/unmasked is the panic. We went through the same thing during the Me Too era only people could not recognize it. Suddenly every man seemed like a rapist. Every gesture, evidence of it. Now, it's about racism - which has all but consumed the entire left of this country because they are deathly afraid of being called a racist. I can only put this down to the idea that we were building a utopian vision of America under Obama (Miranda's Hamilton for example) and that was disrupted by Trump who not only refused to obey the new rules of the utopia (no one should ever be offended, no person is marginalized for any reason) but spat in its face. Now, however, we are destroying ourselves. It won't end until enough people start speaking out against it. You can feel the tide turning but it's not turning fast enough. The fear is still there.

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