Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?

This week I learned that a journalism school declined to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer prize winner and a MacArthur genius grantee, in the wake of an outrage campaign fomented by people who find talking about the realities of how the US treats Black people to be insufficiently patriotic.

This week I learned that AP fired a just-out-of-college journalist named Emily Wilder in the wake of an outrage campaign led by the Stanford College Republicans about her participation in pro-Palestine campus activities.

This week I learned that CNN declined to take any disciplinary action whatsoever against Chris Cuomo for advising his brother (aka New York Governor Andrew Cuomo) "and senior members of the governor’s staff on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations made earlier this year by women who had worked with the governor".

This week I learned that when an all Black and brown team made up of absolute experts in gaming launch a wildly successful Kickstarter, the immediate reaction by certain prominent personalities will be to suggest that those folks couldn't possibly know what they were doing but gosh if they weren't just asking questions and trying to be supportive of "POCs in the games industry".