Bari Weiss: The “It Lesbian” of the American Right

Conservatives can’t seem to get enough of media impresario Bari Weiss. Bari is the “It Lesbian” of the American right.

Recently, a Tweet of hers has been making the rounds and been retweeted by conservatives. 

She says, 

One of the reasons my party [she is referring to the Democrats, her party] lost in the recent elections is that we didn’t recognize how the world was changing, and when we did, we did not adapt quickly enough. Specifically, there was complacency about the nature of the enemy we were fighting because a lot of people did not recognize it for what it was.

She goes on to say, 

That is the trick those on the authoritarian left have pulled off. They have smuggled ideas and policies that look like liberalism but are anything but. They speak the language of the civil rights movement, but they aim to resegregate us. They preach about social justice, but they do not believe in the most basic ideas of fairness and equality. They demand our tolerance even as they seek to undermine the very culture and institutions that create that tolerance in the first place.

This is all good stuff, no question about it. Bari is right about the authoritarian left. They have invaded the Democratic Party and the academy, too, which is where Weiss made her bones standing up to cancel culture. But while the authoritarian left may be an enemy, they are not the enemy. After all, we can choose where to send our children to school. They don’t have to go to Columbia like Weiss did. What’s more, we can ignore and even laugh at their cancel culture and all the rest. What we cannot overlook is something Weiss is a part of, and that is the Sexual Left, the Sexual Revolutionaries that crowd in all around us and have poisoned all aspects of American life. 

Granted, what Weiss has accomplished is quite remarkable. She has created a media empire called The Free Press. At $10 million a year from 100,000 paid subscribers, that platform is, according to Substack, the number one newsletter. She employs a few dozen full-time employees. She publishes terrific writers, including many who are right-of-center. She supports conservative causes. 

She is attractive, winsome, and articulate, and she is right on a whole host of issues, including free speech. She is probably good on transing kids. 

She and her “gay married” lover, Nellie Bowles, announced they were having their second child. That some anonymous man eugenically picked out of a book who masturbated into a cup from which Nellie was impregnated is supposed to be a matter for celebration. At The Free Press, Bari and Nellie invited two noted conservative women—Bethany Mandell and Mary Katherine Ham—to advise them on having a second child. It was all so adorable! Bari’s mom and dad gave advice, too, and her mom actually quoted James Dobson’s advice on strict discipline. Perhaps mom should have used Dobson’s wooden spoon of discipline a little more rigorously. 

This situation, deliberately creating a child without a father to be raised in a sinful household, may be accepted by “conservatives,” but there is nothing conservative about cheering on sexual revolutionaries.  Deliberately creating a child without a father to be raised in a sinful household may be accepted by “conservatives,” but there is nothing conservative about cheering on sexual revolutionaries. Tweet This

Some say we have to use allies wherever we can find them. I ask, allies for what exactly? For the fight against cancel culture? For the fight against Islamic terrorism? To save higher education at Columbia University? Maybe you know someone who has experienced being canceled. You do not know anyone who has directly experienced Islamic terrorism. But you most certainly know many people who the Sexual Revolution has harmed. The victims are all around you, probably in your own family. Probably you. 

I know what it is like to make common cause with those you may profoundly disagree with on other issues. My organization at the U.N. has worked with governments that persecute Christians. We make common cause to stop the Sexual Revolutionaries from imposing their will on the world. What we would never do is make common cause with them in public. We do not go to their capitals and make supportive speeches. We do not hold hands with them. 

Now, I am not saying that Bari and Nellie are Osama bin Laden or the government of South Sudan. But they are part of a far more dangerous movement to you and me, a movement that has done profound harm to our country and the world. The Pill, pornography, divorce, abortion, homosexuality; these are the dangers to our country. We should proceed accordingly.

Look, I love Elon Musk. He is a fascinating lunatic. His private life is a profound disgrace. We can hold and, more importantly, speak both of these opinions. Why not with Bari Weiss? 

I am looking at a photograph of young rapper Zeddy Will surrounded by five fetching young women. Each of the women is far along in pregnancy. Zeddy impregnated them all at the same time. He’s proud of it. If Zeddy was also good on cancel culture and Islamic terrorism and liberal education, do we give him a pass for this enormity? Sadly, for many in the conservative intelligentsia, the answer is a robust yes! Give us more white picket fence lesbians! 

Let me put it this way. I am not afraid in the least that my daughters will experience Islamic terrorism. I am highly doubtful they will come across cancel culture. But I am deeply afraid the Sexual Revolution is coming for them. Bari Weiss is a comforting part of that Revolution.

[Photo: Bari Weiss (Credit: Getty Images for The Free Press)]