New York Times reporter Ben Smith leaked an internal investigation into him to the daily beast which wrote rather incendiary story about it saying he was a racist and sexist without examples of the end word in a matter of asking as you said this student how had it been used. At first his bosses said we looked into this and intent does matter mcneill had no bad intent, they say as we've learned in our hr training not as journalists in ourhr training intent doesn't matter then back hey said as thenMcNeill's resigning and back hey later said that if intent doesn't matters society collapses. We are being told we are being trained as human being since the hr it's not your professional
There is a lot of bad advice going around these days. If something bad happened to you, define yourself by your trauma. And if somebody inadvertently did something offensive, react as though they had intended to harm you. Emily Yoffe, a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, has spent years giving thoughtful advice and chronicling the strange turn in our culture. One of the country's best writers and most fearless reporters, she knows better than just about anyone else how to skewer the growing self-righteousness in our intellectual discourse.
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Emily Yoffe sit down to discuss the hallmarks of cancelation, why intent matters, and how we can recover our capacity to converse freely.
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