The KGB Oracle Forums General Public Discussion (SPECIAL ACCESS) KGB Political Debate Central Is the left eating itself?

Do you think the essay has intellectual value? Even Friedersdorf doesn't defend the essay itself. He is simultaneously trying to defend the right of the editor to publish garbage and the right of the editor to face no consequences for publishing garbage.

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To put this another way, I think most people would agree that the essay itself is self-serving and intellectually vacant noise that would fit best on Ghomeshi's livejournal.

The fact that he is able to write it is the extent to which his exercise of free speech is guaranteed.

I think it's a completely valid opinion that the act of publishing something so inherently worthless in a widely circulated format without "editing the article more thoroughly, commissioning another piece to run alongside, or framing it with some form of editorial comment" is implicitly agreeing with the author's premise; and does, in fact, have real consequences by implicitly supporting the narrative that MeToo movement has gone too far.