ONLY the Niskanen Center fired Wilkinson.
Niskanen Center is a libertarian "think tank" based in Washington, D.C. that advocates for environmentalism, immigration reform, civil liberties, and a national defense policy based on libertarian principles.
Wolfe's supposed "firing" was based on Yashar Ali's two anonynous sources.
Reason: "Wolfe could not be reached and the Times had not immediately responded to questions about her status on Friday."
Remember Disney's James Gunn?
They never actually fired him.
https://archive.vn/PCJPW theweek
Disney reportedly never actually looked for another Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director March 15, 2019
James Gunn is back as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — and it sounds like Disney never seriously explored a replacement after all.
But The Hollywood Reporter now reports that "what almost no one knew" until today was that Marvel and Disney had actually "never undertaken a search" for another director at all and, in fact, had "gone back to Gunn and made a deal...in secret." Deadline similarly reports that the decision to bring back Gunn was made "months ago" and that Marvel "never met with or considered any other director."
Reason: NYT: "We're reassessing our relationship with Will Wilkinson."
NYPost: "According to journalist Yashar Ali, who first reported on her ouster citing two unnamed sources,"
Stop falling for leftist PR stunts.
https://archive.vn/wwdn0 https://reason.com/2021/01/22/niskanen-center-will-wilkinson-lynch-mike-pence-tweet-cancel-culture/
Cancel Culture Comes for Will Wilkinson
The Niskanen Center fired a senior staffer for tweeting an offensive joke about Mike Pence, and hypocrisies abound.
ROBBY SOAVE | 1.22.2021 12:13 PM
Will Wilkinson is a vice president at the left-leaning Niskanen Center, a contributing writer at The New York Times, and someone who has frequently quarreled with me about so-called cancel culture. (I think it's generally bad when people are fired, expelled, or dragged on social media for saying stupid or poorly phrased things they quickly come to regret; Wilkinson has suggested to me that I've made too much of this problem.)
On Wednesday, Wilkinson tweeted, "If Biden really wanted unity, he'd lynch Mike Pence."
Lynching humor is virtually never a good idea, and this joke was especially badly executed. (Wilkinson said he was making a joke not at the former vice president's expense, but in reference to the Capitol rioters who had expressed a similar sentiment. The joke being that this time it was the far right calling for violence against a Republican official rather than the left.)
Nevertheless, the Niskanen Center fired Wilkinson and made it clear that they did so explicitly because of the tweet. "The Niskanen Center appreciates and encourages interesting and provocative online discourse," wrote Niskanen President Jerry Taylor in a statement. "However we draw the line at statements that are, or can in any way be interpreted as, condoning or promoting violence."
The New York Times, too, may take action. "Advocating violence of any form, even in jest, is unacceptable and against the standards of The New York Times," a Times spokesperson told Fox News. "We're reassessing our relationship with Will Wilkinson."
https://archive.vn/tK9Im https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/ny-times-ousts-editor-who-said-she-had-chills-watching-biden-plane-land/
NY Times ousts editor who said she had ‘chills’ watching Biden plane land
By Keith J. Kelly January 22, 2021 | 3:59pm | Updated
According to journalist Yashar Ali, who first reported on her ouster citing two unnamed sources, Wolfe deleted the tweets after she “learned that Biden chose to take his own plane.”
The news set off a Twitter storm of criticism.
Wolfe could not be reached and the Times had not immediately responded to questions about her status on Friday.
Note: Neither Will Wilkinson nor Lauren Wolfe gave a single shit when non-leftists were cancelled.
These clowns can take their $50,000/year MINIMUM "journalist" pay and go fuck themselves.
Things that sporadically happen to 2 "journalists" that represent less than .01% of the population are trends?
- t. Will Wilkinson
https://archive.vn/gJq8i Will Wilkinson Verified account @willwilkinson 1 Feb 2017
Maybe branch out to slightly important stories?
Things that sporadically happen in 20 schools that .01% of the population will ever set foot in are trends?
https://archive.vn/hW8oS Will Wilkinson Verified account @willwilkinson 12 Mar 2020
Cancel culture, lol.
https://archive.vn/YoJNN Will Wilkinson Verified account @willwilkinson· 6 Jul 2020
Proposed: when groups of people have cultural power, but little expectation of effective political power, because they've grown under non-responsive minority-rule "democracy," they will "politicize" every institution, because that's the only politics that work.
That is, "cancel culture" is what you get when people can't do politics through a broken political system.
https://archive.vn/fqtSe Lauren WolfeVerified account @Wolfe321 24 Aug 2020
It's hilarious this refrain of "cancel culture." As if it is actually anything. Virus? Jobs? Nah.
https://archive.vn/Fschc Lauren Wolfe @Wolfe321 2:12 AM · Jan 13, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Do regular humans actually buy zip-ties? Have you ever bought a zip-tie? If so, what did you use it for?
I literally had no idea that there were this many people passionate about the legal use of zip ties
https://archive.vn/iwJa2 Josh Shahryar (they/them) #BLMVerified account @JShahryar 23 Jan 2021
This is the most important thing I've ever written. My friend and family Lauren @Wolfe321 was just fired by the @NYTimes after the NYT was pressured by fascists, Trumpkins and hypocrites on the right for tweeting she had "chills" after witnessing Biden's landing on the 20th.
https://archive.vn/r75cw Lauren Wolfe @Wolfe321 23 Jan 2021
Hard to fathom all the talk of “cancel culture” on my timeline while I’m left without an income during a pandemic. I’m not an ideology, I’m a hard-working person who can no longer pay her bills. @SulomeAnderson @yashar @michaeldweiss
Do what the rest of the talentless women do. Get naked, take pictures, sell them on OnlyFans.
You assume she actually can't pay her bills.
$50,000 minimum, up to $500,000 for senior editors at prestigious (overpaid) "journalists" aka the NYT.
If she's hurting, she bought too many apartments in overpriced NYC.
You seem to underestimate just how expensive NYC is. You could be making a six-figure salary and STILL have trouble making ends meet. And then that is before you get around to the fact that many of these journos see themselves as the new aristocrats and live as such, throwing down for luxury items, high ticket meals, and fancy cars. And I would imagine they are members of luxury clubs that charge hefty membership fees.
Its part of the reason that they react with disgust and revulsion if you ask them if they know anyone who drives a pickup truck. And why they are proud to be out of touch with the average person. Does the lord of the manor concern himself with the needs of his peasant?
Let them move to New Jersey or China something.
But, all of the important people live in NYC!!
Why, if they didnt live there, they might as well go and live with those bumpkins out in flyover country! Why, I bet they dont even know what caviar is out there. And all of that dirt would dirty up my their designer Italian clothing.
https://archive.vn/9Iwd3 Joe Pompeo @joepompeo 24 Jan 2021
So it was 2 tweets, Wolfe accidentally deleted the NYT's precious stash of yaoi porn, or she was never fired in the first place.