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New York Times CANCELED by liberals over Senator Cotton’s ‘Send in the troops’ op-ed
Opinion editors at the New York Times are facing calls to resign over publishing an op-ed by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton making a case for deploying the military to quell the riots that have broken out across the US.
Published on Wednesday and titled “Send in the troops,” Cotton’s op-ed argued that the police and even the National Guard couldn’t quite provide an “overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers” and that the US military should be used for the purpose.
Times subscribers – current and former – condemned the op-ed and swore to boycott the paper going forward.
I (unhappily) had to temporarily cancel my subscription to @nytimes, after being laid off a few weeks ago.After seeing this Tom Cotton OpEd, I won't be re-subscribing to a paper that publishes calls for militarizing troops against its own citizens. pic.twitter.com/OWghmj22OP
— Solaria (@solphoto) June 3, 2020
Publishing Cotton's “abhorrent op-ed is unacceptable, and there should be resignations,” declared writer Thor Benson.
The Times publishing Tom Cotton's abhorrent op-ed is unacceptable, and there should be resignations.
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) June 3, 2020
Journalist Yashar Ali actually tagged the opinion editors and demanded they “resign or provide a detailed accounting to the public of how you weren't involved in the publication of that awful op-ed,” threatening to use his “enormous privilege” to compel them.
. @JBennet, @katiekings, and @jimdao you need to resign or provide a detailed accounting to the public of how you weren't involved in the publication of that awful op-ed. Unlike some other people in media, I have enormous privilege and will use it to speak out.Resign.
— Yashar Ali
