On August 14, NY Times sports reporter Michael Powell weighed in on the
virtual meeting for Adolph Reed Jr. that fell through in May after DSA’s
Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus demanded a debate. On June
12, Reed and co-thinker Walter Benn Michaels didan interview
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SRSmufe-I4>with Bellows magazine in
which Reed stated that he did not need the stress of listening to
hostile comments in a virtual meeting, so he decided to withdraw.
The left has been trying to figure out why the Times decided to report
on this controversy, with many concluding that it was an attempt by the
paper to weaken our movement. Since the NY Times has been one of the
biggest supporters of the DSA, this seems unlikely to me. My guess is
that they were simply trying to sell newspapers since this “cancel
culture” business has been hot ever since the Harper’s Open Letter. They
have mined this culture wars vein in the past with ample coverage of
Alan Sokal’s spoof, for example.
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2020/08/17/the-background-to-the-ny-times-article-on-adolph-reed-jr-and-the-cancelled-meeting/
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