The tyranny of the self righteous left. Or, how a minority intimidates the majority.

Former New York Times opinion editor blasts cancel culture as 'social murder' on Bill Maher's show

‘Twitter is the assigning editor of The New York Times’

"The writer Jonathan Rauch [of The Atlantic] called it social murder. And I think that's right," she said. 

"It's not just about punishing the sinner. It's not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure," Weiss explained. "It's about this sort of secondary boycott of people who would deign to speak to that person or appear on a platform with that person."

"And we see just very obviously where that kind of politics gets us," she continued. "If conversation with people that we disagree with becomes impossible, what is the way that we solve conflict? It's violence."