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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If this review of Bari Weiss's book gets at her views, you're batting .333 -- your first two sentences are wrong, but your third is sadly correct.
By "dull and conventional," I take it that you mean you don't really have any interest in anything Bari Weiss has ever said, but if she's pissing off people to her left then she must be doing something right. Punching hippies never gets old.
Yes, no virtue signaling at all in anything Weiss writes.
It's pretty clear that virtue signaling doesn't bother you at all unless the virtues being signaled are valued by the left but not the right.
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I know it’s a trope of yours to suggest, when you have no argument in the merits, that free speech advocates simply want to “own the libs.” Stop. It’s weak and transparent.
I think Weiss is conventional because she is. She writes on dull topics and seems obsessed with anti-Semitism. It’s not riveting stuff. She’s only interesting when she talks about free speech issues, and even there it’s only compelling because it’s rare for a centrist to put herself at risk.
