Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

CNN says the "views" of @jk_rowling "cause harm," citing as evidence an activist who claims "very real hurt felt by young people who once saw Ms. Rowling’s fiction as a place of comfort, friendship and escape.”

This is narcissistic safetyism on cnn.com/2023/02/21/ent…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

This is also about a CNN lost to everything in the outside world other than its own envy at start-up news media companies like @TheFP doing the kind of real reporting that CNN used to do:

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Should we be surprised that this whistleblower decided to take her story to @bariweiss @TheFP instead of CNN? Of course not. CNN, in a state of mindless Wokeism, could not be trusted by anybody who challenges the official ideology.

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In the past, CNN might have sought out a conversation with one of the greatest children's novelists of all time, who also happens to be "controversial." Not anymore. Instead, CNN looks at this remarkable conversation as "harmful." Puke.

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This is CNN's idea of objective reporting: "For years, J.K. Rowling, one of the best-selling authors of all time, has made inflammatory comments about transgender people, particularly trans women, using dehumanizing language and baselessly accusing them of harming cisgender… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Safetyism results from America’s coddling culture, as shown by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff in The Coddling of the American Mind. Coddling is a form of infantilization, with young people taking longer, and parents giving them more time, to grow up. It public.substack.com/p/the-narcissi…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…