Andrew Sullivan wrote his final column for New York magazine, where he has worked since 2016, on Friday after revealing he was leaving for reasons that were ‘self-evident’ Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan has revealed he is leaving New York magazine because he misses writing freely without being in a ‘defensive crouch’ – as he bemoaned mainstream media for no longer having diverse opinions

Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan has revealed he is leaving New York magazine because he misses writing freely without being in a ‘defensive crouch’ – as he bemoaned mainstream media for no longer having diverse opinions.

In his <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website column on Friday for the magazine where he has worked for four years, Sullivan said that a ‘critical mass’ of staff at the company no longer wanted to associate with him due, in part, to his criticisms of critical theory or woke culture. 

The self-described ‘anti-Trump conservative’ said some staff and management had come to believe that any writer who doesn’t conform to critical theory was harming co-workers ‘merely by existing in the same virtual space’. 

He said that if the mainstream media would no longer host a diversity of opinion, it was up to the nonmainstream media to pick up the slack. 

Sullivan had revealed on Wednesday that he was leaving the magazine, which is owned by Vox Media, and said at the time that the reasons for his departure were ‘self-evident’. 

The announcement came just weeks after he was allegedly banned by the magazine from writing about the riots across the US in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

It also came on the same day New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss revealed she had quit in a scathing resignation letter that slammed the newspaper for fostering an ‘illiberal environment’ and allegedly allowing her to be bullied by coworkers for 퍼스트카지노쿠폰 ‘wrongthink’. 

In contrast to Weiss’ bullying claims, Sullivan started his final column saying he was ‘proud and happy’ to have been part of his venture with the magazine and that he had no complaints about his interactions with his editors and fact-checkers. 

‘What has happened, I think, is relatively simple: A critical mass of the staff and management at New York Magazine and Vox Media no longer want to associate with me, and, in a time of ever tightening budgets, I’m a luxury item they don’t want to afford.

And that’s entirely their prerogative,’ he wrote. 

‘They seem to believe, and this is increasingly the orthodoxy in mainstream media, that any writer not actively committed to critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity is actively, physically harming co-workers merely by existing in the same virtual space. 

‘Actually attacking, and even mocking, critical theory’s ideas and methods, as I have done continually in this space, is therefore out of sync with the values of Vox Media.

That, to the best of my understanding, is why I’m out of here.’ 

The openly gay writer noted that conservative in his meant opposing Donald Trump, supporting criminal justice reform, pioneering marriage equality and supporting laws to protect transgender people from discrimination. 

He said he also plans to vote for Joe Biden. 

‘It seems to me that if this conservatism is so foul that many of my peers are embarrassed to be working at the same magazine, then I have no idea what version of conservatism could ever be tolerated.

And that’s fine. We have freedom of association in this country, and if the mainstream media want to cut ties with even moderate anti-Trump conservatives, because they won’t bend the knee to critical theory’s version of reality, that’s their prerogative. 

Sullivan used his final column to announce he was re-launching his blog, the Dish, which he shut down in 2015 when he stopped blogging and started working for New York magazine. 

He said he missed being able to write ‘freely without being in a defensive crouch’. 

Sullivan, in his column, dismissed that he was simply being ‘canceled’ by leaving the magazine. 

‘I agree with some of the critics that it’s a little nuts to say I’ve just been ‘canceled,’ sent into oblivion and exile for some alleged sin. I haven’t.

I’m just no longer going to be writing for a magazine that has every right to hire and 카지노사이트 fire anyone it wants when it comes to the content of what it wants to publish,’ he said.   

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