[Outdated] Atlas Society misquotes Bari Weiss – improved regex

02/20/2024 · By Dennis Hackethal · Forked from [Outdated] Atlas Society misquotes Bari Weiss · Fork · Check another quote

Original text

The universities are playing favorites based on the speech they prefer and the racial group hierarchies that they have established. It is a nasty game and they need to be called out for it.
The Free Press, ‘The Last Line of Defense By Bari Weiss’, https://youtu.be/a6i9VPrj170?t=1908

Quote text

The universities play favorites based on the speech they prefer, and the racial group hierarchies they’ve established. It’s a nasty game and they need to be called to account for it.
https://twitter.com/TheAtlasSociety/status/1759572456476479743
No use of ellipsis indicated, falling back to default ‘[...]’ if necessary.
Found 9 issue(s) using regular expression [^,\s]+|\s and Myers algorithm, underlined in wavy red. 
The‧universities‧are‧playingplay‧favorites‧based‧on‧the‧speech‧they‧prefer,‧and‧the‧racial‧group‧hierarchies‧that‧they‧havethey’ve‧established.‧It‧isIt’s‧a‧nasty‧game‧and‧they‧need‧to‧be‧called‧outto‧account‧for‧it.

Explanation

# Part Valid? Explanation
1 
The‧universities‧
2 
are‧playing
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3 
play
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4 
‧favorites‧based‧on‧the‧speech‧they‧prefer
5 
,
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6 
‧and‧the‧racial‧group‧hierarchies‧
7 
that‧they‧have
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8 
they’ve
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9 
‧established.‧
10 
It‧is
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11 
It’s
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12 
‧a‧nasty‧game‧and‧they‧need‧to‧be‧called‧
13 
out
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14 
to‧account
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15 
‧for‧it.

Notes

Correction: The Atlas Society did not misquote Weiss. --- Update: I’ve improved the regular expression so that the comma is seen as separate from the preceding word, resulting in one less issue. --- The quote is all caps, as usual with the Atlas Society, but I’ve rendered it the way it’s intended to be, or at least is going to be, understood: as regular case. The Atlas Society gives a seemingly unrelated source pointing to a video of some Atlas Society Gala from 2022 that does not feature Weiss. It’s possible this video is a secondary source – maybe one of the attendants quotes Weiss. There’s no transcript so it would take too long to check. Either way, the Atlas Society does not indicate that this is a secondary source. It attributes the quote directly to Weiss. It’s a little hard to tell (non-native speaker here) whether Weiss says ‘based on the speech’ or ‘based on speech’ (omitting ‘the’). The YouTube transcript contains ‘the’ so I decided to include it, which is more charitable for the Atlas Society anyway.

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