CNN Submits to Right-Wing Outrage Mob, Fires Marc Lamont Hill Due to his “Offensive” Defense of Palestinians at the UN theintercept.com/2018/11/29/cnn…
Our discourse, newsrooms, and academic institutions are now drowning with people who demand that any speech be banned and suppressed that they regard as “hurtful,” “offensive,” “traumatizing,” or fostering a feeling of being “unsafe," leading to this: theintercept.com/2018/11/29/cnn…
In 2010, CNN ended the 20-year career of its producer, @octavianasr, for a tweet allegedly "offensive" to Israelis upon the death of a Shiite cleric. In 2014, the Univ of Illinois fired @stevesalaita after Jewish students complained his criticism of Israel made them feel "unsafe"
That's why I say: "Though this self-protective mentality" - 'I can't be exposed to ideas that upset me' - is often attributed to liberal millennials, it is in fact widely invoked across ideologies and generations to justify censorship." theintercept.com/2018/11/29/cnn…
Petition to CNN demanding that it reverse its decision to fire @marclamonthill on the ground that free thought is vital to journalism & "CNN caved to pressure, wrongly saying Lamont Hill’s views are anti-Semitic and firing him on that false premise." actionnetwork.org/petitions/cnn-…
