![]() ![]() ![]() Sex differences and transgenderism are controversial subjects, no doubt about it, but the intellectual equivalents of the drugs and guns that are traded on the Dark Web are not profiled in the New York Times. The name might have been coined jokily by the mathematician Eric Weinstein, but once it was affixed to the subculture it became absurd. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought…’ The article was smothered in cloying pretension. Describing a subculture of liberals, conservatives and disaffected leftists who were engaging in conversations about free speech, left-wing censoriousness and un-PC subjects like sex differences and transgenderism, Weiss described three common features of these different people: ‘First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject… Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what’s politically convenient. Exactly two years ago, on May 8, 2018, Bari Weiss published an essay in the New York Times titled ‘ Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web ’. ![]()
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