New York Times staffers slam paper for publishing Tom Cotton op-ed

James Bennet, the editorial page editor, explained his reasoning on Twitter in a thread.

Times Opinion owes it to our readers to show them counter-arguments, particularly those made by people in a position to set policy, he wrote. We understand that many readers find Senator Cotton s argument painful, even dangerous. We believe that is one reason it requires public scrutiny and debate.

Cotton on Thursday thanked the Times for running his op-ed but ripped staffers who said it should not have been published.

Their reaction exposes the hypocrisy of all these woke progressives who claim to defend liberal values but as soon as they are presented with an opinion with which they disagree, they go into meltdown, they demand censorship, they refer to words as violence, they call for firings, he said on Fox News.

via nypost.com

Strange times.