Hemingway: Sleeping Giants ‘Delusional or Dishonest’ to Claim ‘Apolitical’ Mission

Mark Hemingway, husband to Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway, examines the censorship activist org “Sleeping Giants” and the statements of its founder Matt Rivitz — concluding that Rivitz has no clear guiding principles to his speech-chilling blacklist campaigns, regularly ignoring “more overtly bigoted” left-wing media content than what has spawned his crusades against Breitbart News, Tucker Carlson, and others. From RealClearPolitics: [I]nsensitive or incendiary sentiments regularly repeated by left-wing media outlets seem to escape the same kind of scrutiny for offense that have been applied to Breitbart. It’s not a stretch to see why headlines such as “There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck at Interviews” might cause corporate advertisers to back away from Breitbart. But you don’t see advertisers backing off of “mainstream” outlets such as the Huffington Post or The Guardian because they’ve run flattering articles on the #ShoutYourAbortion movement, which is the kind of abortion activism that can easily be shown to be offensive and off-putting. At the same time that voices from the right are being targeted, the kinds of left-wing sentiments that can be published on major outlets has shifted dramatically, with no corresponding pushback or attempt at self-correction. “Can you admire