I agree re the post but the article is easily able to be criticized. Banning the post just gives their platform no pushback. If people read this crap and bring it here, engagement and sharing critical analysis is really the best way to de-polarize our current climate and encourage people to seek alternative sources instead of taking this propaganda at face value.

ETA: lol downvote all you want but I find it ironic that this assignment the NYP is reporting on is scaffolding for The Scarlet Letter, which of course is the book on which Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is based. That play, you likely remember, was a critical metaphor of and pushback against McCarthyism - the right wing attempt to uncover and silence an ideology (in that case, communism officially but which targeted any socialist or ordinary left wing advocates).

Free society means we don’t ban books or the press- full stop. Censorship is burying your head in the sand- lazy and does nothing to combat bad ideas, and leads to the pendulum swinging too far the other way until we are again on the receiving end.