"Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second."
tldr - this "letter" is signed by well known right wing patsies such as Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem, Fareed Zakaria and Dexter Filkins
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police...
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tldr - this "letter" is signed by well known right wing patsies such as Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem, Fareed Zakaria and Dexter Filkins