<story><title>A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette</title><url>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>A lot of people are going to compare this publication to &amp;quot;bog Conservative&amp;quot; -- or worse, &amp;#x27;alt-right&amp;#x27; -- online publications.  A friend sent me an article for the first time today and it took the words out of my head - and it&amp;#x27;s not at all what I would consider right-wing.&lt;p&gt;Does the word &amp;#x27;white&amp;#x27; in the headline of this piece make you nervous: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quillette.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;a-closer-look-at-anti-white-rhetoric&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quillette.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;a-closer-look-at-anti-white...&lt;/a&gt; ?  Will you skim the headline, downvote this and fail to read the part that talks heavily about the new NYT editor and hundreds of her tweets, combines other examples and advances a thesis that there&amp;#x27;s a new type of religious ideology that&amp;#x27;s taken hold in the U.S., while traditional religion waned?      If so, then you&amp;#x27;re precisely what the conversation is about: people who sit idly by as a new dogmatism takes hold under the guise of righteousness.&lt;p&gt;As a traditionally Left person myself, I&amp;#x27;m deeply troubled by the discourse in the U.S., where the Left and the extreme Right use the same phraseology and attitude, while the former feels vindicated and justified (because they are on the correct side).  And throwing away due process in the interest of the Greater Good?  If you&amp;#x27;re not reminded of the Salem Witch Trials, you should be reminded of Stalin&amp;#x27;s purges just the same.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stepping out of right-versus-left politics, the idea is to remain skeptical of all group-think, regardless of where it comes from.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit: grammar</text></comment>
<story><title>A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette</title><url>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alanh</author><text>If you’ve ever read PG’s classic essay &amp;quot;What You Can’t Say,&amp;quot; Quillette may be recognizable as a publication unafraid to ask all of today’s unaskable questions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;say.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;say.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quillette.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quillette.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>