NYT Editor Pens Candid, Honest Piece On Women’s March Organizers

We’ve been telling you about the grotesque, pseudo-feminist women who organized the Women’s March for a while now. The fact that thousands upon thousands of leftist women in this country have banded in solidarity with them is not just frustrating… it’s alarming.

Bari Weiss, a staff editor for the New York Times, had the courage to, at least for a moment, take off her liberal blindfold, and see what’s really going on.

Before I really get in to this, I want to say that while I don’t agree with Ms. Weiss on many things, even things said in this article, I enormously congratulate her for this. She is already feeling the repercussions of it from the “tolerant” left, and likely will for a long, long time.

Bravo, Bari. This took a stomach full of courage, and an enormous set of balls.

In her OpEd piece “When Progressives Embrace Hate,” Weiss begins by admitting that she was initially moved by the Women’s March:

…Now was the time to put aside petty differences and secondary issues to oppose his presidency.

 

That’s certainly what the leaders of the Democratic Party, who applauded the march, told us. Senator Charles Schumer called the protest “part of the grand American tradition.” The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, offered her congratulations to the march’s “courageous organizers” and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand gushed about them in Time, where they were among the top 100 most influential people of 2017. “The Women’s March was the most inspiring and transformational moment I’ve ever witnessed in politics,” she wrote. “And it happened because four extraordinary women — Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour — had the courage to take on something big, important and urgent, and never gave up.”

 

The image of this fearsome foursome, echoed in more than a few flattering profiles, was as seductive as a Benetton ad. There was Tamika Mallory, a young black activist who was crowned the “Sojourner Truth of our time” by Jet magazine and “a leader of tomorrow” by Valerie Jarrett. Carmen Perez, a Mexican-American and a veteran political organizer, was named one of Fortune’s Top 50 World Leaders. Linda Sarsour, a hijab-wearing Palestinian-American and the former head of the Arab-American Association of New York, had been recognized as a “champion of change” by the Obama White House. And Bob Bland, the fashion designer behind the “Nasty Women” T-shirts, was the white mother who came up with the idea of the march in the first place.

That’s where the ra-ra-feminist-sisterhood daydream ends. Weiss soon realized that behind the pseudo-feminism and contrived sisterhood, was something far more sinister.

Start with Ms. Sarsour, by far the most visible of the quartet of organizers. It turns out that this “homegirl in a hijab,” as one of many articles about her put it, has a history of disturbing views, as advertised by . . . Linda Sarsour.

 

There are comments on her Twitter feed of the anti-Zionist sort: “Nothing is creepier than Zionism,” she wrote in 2012. And, oddly, given her status as a major feminist organizer, there are more than a few that seem to make common cause with anti-feminists, like this from 2015: “You’ll know when you’re living under Shariah law if suddenly all your loans and credit cards become interest-free. Sound nice, doesn’t it?” She has dismissed the anti-Islamist feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the most crude and cruel terms, insisting she is “not a real woman” and confessing that she wishes she could take away Ms. Ali’s vagina — this about a woman who suffered genital mutilation as a girl in Somalia.

 

Ms. Sarsour and her defenders have dismissed all of this as a smear campaign coordinated by the far right and motivated by Islamophobia. Plus, they’ve argued, many of these tweets were written five years ago! Ancient history.

But just last month, Ms. Sarsour proved that her past is prologue. On July 16, the official Twitter feed of the Women’s March offered warm wishes to Assata Shakur. “Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur!” read the tweet, which featured a “#SignOfResistance, in Assata’s honor” — a pink and purple Pop Art-style portrait of Ms. Shakur, better known as Joanne Chesimard, a convicted killer who is on the F.B.I.’s list of most wanted terrorists.

 

Like many others, CNN’s Jake Tapper noticed the outrageous tweet. “Shakur is a cop-killer fugitive in Cuba,” he tweeted, going on to mention Ms. Sarsour’s troubling past statements. “Any progressives out there condemning this?” he asked.

 

In the face of this sober criticism, Ms. Sarsour cried bully: “@jaketapper joins the ranks of the alt-right to target me online. Welcome to the party.”

Sobering, isn’t it?

Weiss further breaks this down…

“Our power — your power — scares the far right. They continue to try to divide us. Today’s attacks on #AssataShakur are the latest example.”

 

Since when did criticizing a domestic terrorist become a signal issue of the far right? Last I checked, that position was a matter of basic decency and patriotism.

It’s interesting, watching someone’s reality crumble like this. It’s a somber kind of hopefulness, really. At the risk of sounding dramatic, I’d venture to say that Bari Weiss is sacrificing her reputation among the left, her career, even her safety, to dismantle a false narrative she once bought in to. I am proud of her, and I am grateful. We need more of this.

She continues:

What’s more distressing is that Ms. Sarsour is not the only leader of the women’s movement who harbors such alarming ideas. Largely overlooked have been the similarly outrageous statements of the march’s other organizers.

Ms. Mallory, in addition to applauding Assata Shakur as a feminist emblem, also admires Fidel Castro, who sheltered Ms. Shakur in Cuba. She put up a flurry of posts when Mr. Castro died last year. “R.I.P. Comandante! Your legacy lives on!” she wrote in one. She does not have similar respect for American police officers. “When you throw a brick in a pile of hogs, the one that hollers is the one you hit,” she posted on Nov. 20.

 

Ms. Perez also expressed her admiration for a Black Panther convicted of trying to kill six police officers: “Love learning from and sharing space with Baba Sekou Odinga.”

 

But the public figure both women regularly fawn over is Louis Farrakhan.

On May 11, Ms. Mallory posted a photo with her arm around Mr. Farrakhan, the 84-year-old Nation of Islam leader notorious for his anti-Semitic comments, on Twitter and Instagram. “Thank God this man is still alive and doing well,” she wrote. It is one of several videos and photos and quotes that Ms. Mallory has posted of Mr. Farrakhan.

 

Ms. Perez is also a big fan. In the fall, she posted a photo in which she holds hands with Mr. Farrakhan, writing, “There are many times when I sit with elders or inspirational individuals where I think, ‘I just wish I could package this and share this moment with others.’ ” She’s also promoted video of Mr. Farrakhan “dropping knowledge” and another in which he says he is “speaking truth to power.”

Weiss then reminds her readers, who probably have absolutely no idea who Farrakhan REALLY is, of a few things this anti-semitic monster has said:

“And don’t you forget, when it’s God who puts you in the ovens, it’s forever!” he warned Jews in a speech at a Nation of Islam gathering in Madison Square Garden in 1985. Five years later, he remained unreformed: “The Jews, a small handful, control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement of a great ship in the waters.” Or this metaphor, directed at Jews: “You have wrapped your tentacles around the U.S. government, and you are deceiving and sending this nation to hell.” He called Hitler “a very great man” on national television. Judaism, he insists, is a “gutter religion.”

 

In one of the several widely available YouTube videos he’s made about the Jews, he told black Americans that “the control of the Synagogue of Satan over our people must be exposed.”

 

Mr. Farrakhan is also an unapologetic racist. He insists that whites are a “race of devils” and that “white people deserve to die.”

These women call this monster their hero. The fact that so many liberal women can stand by evil individuals who uphold this disgusting man as some sort of icon…. it’s sad. It’s really sad. And the fact that Weiss, a liberal herself, is recognizing this publicly, is bigger than people even realize.

We, of course, know a lot of the information she’s disclosing. Her readers? They might not. They’ve REFUSED to be exposed to this. Even when they are, they spit it back in the informant’s face, refusing to believe it. Calling it “alt-right,” racist propaganda. The fact that it’s coming from their own side should hit them like a bag full of rocks to the face.

Unfortunately, they’ve resorted to pelting her with rocks first:

This piece is absurd propaganda. The Times is better than this…or at least I thought they were.

— (((People’s Champ))) (@JCThePplsChamp) August 1, 2017

So, the critique of the white woman is where? Powerful women of color intimidate you? Sad swipe. @lsarsour @TamikaDMallory @msladyjustice1

— Dante Boykin (@DanteB4u) August 1, 2017

Why is the @nytimes (well, the opinions column to be exact!) fawning over the racist, islamophobic, lying & defamatory Bari Weiss ? 😑

— ßôžλrt (@Boz7rt) August 1, 2017

🤔 I wonder why anyone would accuse you of aligning yourself with the alt-right? pic.twitter.com/E0ggSnGC6N

— Mijey (@MikeJoslyn) August 1, 2017

HAHAHAHAHA She’s alt-right now, you guys. I can’t with these people.

Bari Weiss’s embarrassing reactionary trash is attracting praise from all the people a sane person wouldn’t want to be praised by pic.twitter.com/cQRbMxLE26

— Karl Barks 🇻🇪 (@onlineman420) August 1, 2017

Bari Weiss is a relatively new name in the Hate Read category but hoo boy has she come out swinging https://t.co/enCcXVNyf2

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) August 1, 2017

Bari Weiss: Judge people by the most toxic things said by the figures they say they admire.

Also Bari Weiss: I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) August 1, 2017

There are 4 leaders of the Women’s March…you only mentioned 3. The women of color.

— Tenicka Boyd (@TenickaBoyd) August 2, 2017

what’s wrong w/ Sarsour’s anti-zionism? Zionism is anti-progressive, being an unsavoury colonial ideology

— RepStones (@RepStones) August 1, 2017

It’s strange how Bari Weiss seems to ‘care’ about ‘progressive politics’ when she has authored anti-Obama articles.https://t.co/7fEOqQR4p0 pic.twitter.com/AH4XXZ5vHF

— Sacha Saeen (@S_Saeen) August 1, 2017

Complete nonsense framing; progressives are embracing people who fight unchecked power in all its forms. Trumpian to frame that as “hate”

— Jos (@DMTJoshi) August 2, 2017

The JEWS LOVE to instruct black people and others whom they should look to for instruction guidance etc. AntiBlack racist! pic.twitter.com/XeK2dR7gQa

— Nestasplace (@Nestasplc) August 2, 2017

@bariweiss is on the Wrong Side of History but she’ll come around. Give her some time. Be kind. She’s feeling our pain.

— Rafiq Kathwari (@brownpundit) August 2, 2017

Really. I think this op-ed is taking many things out of context. Not impressed.

— Kye (@civilservant_10) August 3, 2017

Not one of them has been able to refute her claims.

Welcome, Bari to the sh*tshow that is part of being hated by the left. We’re professionals, and can show you a thing or two. We may not agree with you on everything, but unlike them we’ll welcome you with open arms if you’d like to chat sometime.