The need to apologize
Another great piece by Liel Leibovitz in Tablet Magazine:
Everywhere you look these days, you see people making the turn, the … redeeming process of realizing that so much of what they thought about the world—about COVID and wokeness and Russia and the Democrats and the Republicans …—might’ve been misguided and must now change.”
“How should you feel if you’ve spent the past two years being called a grandma killer, say, or a nutjob anti-vaxxer, or a racist? … There are … … two wrong answers…[1] to do to the other side what they did to you … [2] ‘just take the W and move on.’”
“There is no universe in which Leanna Wen should ever again be making public health pronouncements that government bodies or citizens take seriously. There is no universe in which you should ever again read Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post’s ‘fact checker,’ … These are hacks, disingenuous operatives who trade on their reputation and repeat party lines and accuse anyone who calls them out on their bullshit as being unfair or, worse, unhinged.”
“… as Walter Kirn pointed out in a public conversation we shared earlier this year, get in the habit of looking at the track record, not the ideology, which is an essential habit if you want to stay sane and safe.”
The complete, original article is here.