{"id":2270177,"date":"2024-06-18T03:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-bari-weiss-really-oppose-cultural-marxism\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:58:37","slug":"does-bari-weiss-really-oppose-cultural-marxism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-bari-weiss-really-oppose-cultural-marxism\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bari Weiss Truly Against Cultural Marxism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoes-bari-weiss-really-oppose-cultural-marxism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2270177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This excerpt discusses Bari\u200b Weiss, a former columnist for The New York Times, known for her criticism of the newspaper&#8217;s stance \u2064on free speech\u2062 and for founding \u200dThe \u200dFree Press. Weiss, who identifies as Jewish and queer, has used her platforms to critique the ideology of intersectionalism,\u2062 which she describes as creating a caste system that oppositely labels people as oppressors and victims based\u2064 on racial and sexual identities. She \u200bargues against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives,\u2064 and promotes a\u200c unity to\u2063 preserve Western values and fight against the cultural Marxism that \u200cshe believes threatens all minority groups, including Jews and sexual minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss has\u200c been vocal about the threats posed by extremist groups, referencing an incident on October 7, 2023, when Hamas \u200dterrorists killed and kidnapped several\u2064 people in Israel. She denounced the left&#8217;s \u200cresponse to this event during a speech to the Federalist Society, stressing the \u200cneed for those who believe in the goodness\u200b of America and Western values to unite regardless \u200dof minor ideological differences.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from her activism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-appointed-judge-delays-sentencing-for-kevin-clinesmith-until-after-inauguration-day\/\" title=\"Obama-Appointed Judge Delays Sentencing For Kevin Clinesmith Until After Inauguration Day\">professional career<\/a>, the text \u200balso\u200d touches on aspects of Weiss&#8217;s personal life, such as her divorce, her same-sex marriage, and her decision to\u200d have a child with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debra-soh-adults-dont-have-the-right-to-impose-their-sexuality-on-children\/\" title=\"Debra Soh: Adults Don\u2019t Have the Right to Impose Their Sexuality on Children\">female partner<\/a> \u2064using a\u200c sperm donor, thus creating a fatherless child. This decision is critiqued in the piece as reflecting a contradiction in Weiss\u2019s advocacy, suggesting that her actions in personal life may \u200cnot fully \u200dalign with the principles she publicly supports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><em>This excerpt comes from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/False-Colors-Flag-Our-Occupation\/dp\/1684515874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a><em>, available from Regnery Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/False-Colors-Flag-Our-Occupation\/dp\/1684515874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everywhere books are sold June 18<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bari Weiss has been waking up for a few years. The liberal columnist famously quit The New York Times in 2020 over its venom against free speech, then started The Free Press, which has 250,000 subscribers. Subscriptions are $8 per month or $80 per year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-335640576\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-062a55ba477680c1e8da4590c68f0249 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-062a55ba477680c1e8da4590c68f0249\"><\/div>\n<p>Weiss, who attended Columbia University as a \u201ctheater kid,\u201d can\u2019t unsee the reality that intersectionalism <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200715124322\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/27\/opinion\/im-glad-the-dyke-march-banned-jewish-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">creates <\/a>\u201ca caste system\u201d that labels Jews like her \u201coppressors\u201d on account of their race. Her lifelong positioning among the U.S. ruling class has allowed Weiss to see, earlier than many others, that cultural Marxism\u2019s doctrine of intersectionalism is not only incoherent but totalitarian.<\/p>\n<p>Being targeted as an oppressor for her race prompted Weiss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/end-dei-woke-capture\">argue publicly for <\/a>\u201cending DEI\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense\">for people<\/a> from all political persuasions to \u201cfight for the West.\u201d Not only religious and ethnic minorities like Jews but also sexual minorities should do the same, she argues, because cultural Marxism threatens us all.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists entered Israel and beheaded babies, raped women, captured 200 hostages, and murdered 1,400 people. Weeks later, Weiss gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense\">a speech<\/a> to the Federalist Society, an organization of nonleftist lawyers. Leftists openly joining Islamists in celebrations of terrorism all over the globe motivated a stirring speech. Weiss noted the crude Cultural Marxist calculus that slots people into groups based on sex, sexual behavior, and race, then labels people \u201coppressed\u201d and \u201coppressor\u201d based on membership in those categories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir moral calculus is as crude as you can imagine: They see Israelis and Jews as powerful and successful and \u2018colonizers,\u2019 so they are bad; Hamas is weak and coded as people of color, so they are good\u2026,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is the ideology of vandalism in the true sense of the word \u2014 the Vandals sacked Rome. It is the ideology of nihilism. It knows nothing of how to build. It knows only how to tear down and to destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f0f773dffb67ae03988072403ee9c656 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f0f773dffb67ae03988072403ee9c656\"><\/div>\n<p>Referring to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/children-as-young-as-5-now-forced-to-have-diversity-and-inclusion-lessons-in-new-jersey-schools\/\" title=\"Children As Young As 5 Now Forced To Have \u2018Diversity And Inclusion\u2019 Lessons In New Jersey Schools\">sexual preferences<\/a>, Weiss recognized that some in the audience \u201cdo not believe my marriage should have been legal,\u201d but she brushed that disagreement aside for a greater purpose. \u201cIn the fight for the West, I know who my allies are. And my allies are not the people who, looking at facile, external markers of my identity, one might imagine them to be. My allies are people who believe that America is good. That the West is good. That human beings \u2014 not cultures \u2014 are created equal and that saying so is essential to knowing what we are fighting for. America and our values are worth fighting for \u2014 and that is the priority of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are stirring and true observations. Weiss\u2019s journey of discovering the truths to guide her actions surely mirrors that of many other Americans, queer and not. Yet, like all of us, she has a lot further to go.<\/p>\n<p>Some aspects of Weiss\u2019s personal life suggest that she doesn\u2019t fully understand what \u201cending DEI\u201d and \u201cfighting for the West\u201d require. In 2016 she <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Bari_Weiss&#038;oldid=1200271122\">divorced<\/a> her husband of three years, and in 2021 she obtained a marriage license with a woman. In the Federalist Society speech, Weiss celebrated speaking in a series dedicated to the wife of a man who fought for homosexual licenses at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Parallel to libertarian pundits Guy Benson and Dave Rubin, Weiss and her female partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/bari-weiss-brings-the-culture-wars-home\">bought<\/a> reproductive parts to generate a child in 2022. That means she chose to create a fatherless child, although lacking a father is perhaps the chief risk factor for almost every disadvantage in life. That\u2019s not just because fathers provide revenue. It\u2019s because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Them-Before-Us-Childrens-Movement\/dp\/1642935964\">fathers provide<\/a> a sex-specific form of parenting that every child needs and deserves in order to thrive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3d5376c23e6cd10a21e280d3b80da12b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3d5376c23e6cd10a21e280d3b80da12b\"><\/div>\n<p>Since bringing a child into existence is impossible without sperm, which only men can generate, it also means that Weiss has made use of a man\u2019s reproductive parts and functions without an intimate relationship with \u2014 or acknowledgment of \u2014 the person attached to them. She has excluded this man from his child\u2019s life. An outspoken feminist, Weiss might question someone who exploited a woman in exactly the same way that her journey to motherhood exploited a man.<\/p>\n<p>Or she might not. When The Free Press published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/motherloading-inside-the-surrogacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an article<\/a> on \u201cthe surrogacy boom,\u201d Weiss <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1645768979833667594\">tweeted<\/a> it with this quotation: \u201c\u2018I\u2019m not a handmaid,\u2019 said Ashley Mareko, who has given birth to three surrogate babies and is about to do it again. She\u2019s made $200,000, which has enabled her to pay off student debt, cover a mortgage, and buy a camper. \u2018I\u2019m a businesswoman.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was unfair to take baby Weiss\u2019s father away before she was born, and that injustice will matter to her for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-struggles-to-read-teleprompter-as-he-trashes-trump-administrations-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-efforts-video\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Struggles to Read Teleprompter as He Trashes Trump Administration\u2019s Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Efforts (VIDEO)\">entire life<\/a>. No amount of money can make up for this deliberately inflicted primal loss. The same is true of the motherless children Benson and Rubin acquired to fill the deficit created by their failure to commit to their children\u2019s mothers through marriage.<\/p>\n<p>A father or mother deficit is one of the chief causes of systemic American social problems including crime, addiction, poverty, depression, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vermont-becomes-first-state-to-give-access-to-free-condoms-for-middle-schoolers\/\" title=\"Vermont Becomes First State To Give Access To Free Condoms For Middle Schoolers\">early sexual activity<\/a>, low achievement, and susceptibility to predators. Indeed, the decline of marriage and the Marxist denigration of men are chief sources of our culture\u2019s decline. You only have to name any effect of Cultural Marxism to see almost instantly that stronger and better men and women would end or reduce it.<\/p>\n<p>So while she speaks true and admirable words repudiating Marxist politics, in her own life, like other alleged anti-Marxists Rubin and Benson, Weiss enacts those same politics. Despite spending her entire professional life chronicling sexual politics, like most in our society Weiss is still blind to the full implications.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss is clearly open to changing her mind and adopting counter-culture positions. So can others who share her current sexual preferences, and those sympathetic to them. If we truly want to save Western civilization, which protects us all, we must refuse to perpetuate Marxism no matter how much we want a child in our arms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d550a9a32d23a4f73db2ba8c96056d9b fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d550a9a32d23a4f73db2ba8c96056d9b\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This excerpt is from *False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America*, available June 18 from Regnery Publishing. 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