This op-ed was everything that's wrong with this "free speech on campus" discussion and with the Times opinion page. The internet rightly destroyed Weiss for
a ridiculous, obvious mistake that undermined her argument. If you're so desperate for examples of the left being unreasonable towards reasonable people that you cite an obvious parody account as one of your small handful of examples, that should tell you something about both the premise and the thoughtfulness of the writer. Her
"apology," of course, was half-###ed at best and admitted to none of that.
And then her other main example, about Sommers, was a straw man. She acted as if the reason for the protests of Sommers and the references to her as a fascist were due to her saying "things like: Men and women are equal, but there are differences between them. Or: The gender gap in STEM fields isn’t simply the result of sexism. Or: Contrary to received wisdom, the American school system actually favors girls, not boys." Of course she made no mention of the actual reason people say those things about Sommers, like for example the fact that she went on a speaking tour with an actual white nationalist (Milo) and posted a photoshop of her as Wonder Woman and him as Superman "defending freedom,"
Anyway,
here's a better response to Weiss than mine. She's crap and the Times opinion page is crap. Which sucks, because as
this guy points out it is super important and these are super important times.