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The NYT recently hired someone to their editorial board who appears to be a brazen and open racist. I don't mean some kind of innuendo racist, but someone with
by fareesh 7y ago
The NYT recently hired someone to their editorial board who appears to be a brazen and open racist.
I don't mean some kind of innuendo racist, but someone with multiple tweets like this:
"Are <ethnic group> genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?"
The NYT excused this this as her way of "imitating the rhetoric" of those who were harassing her online.
I'm inclined to side with them because I think everyone ought to have the opportunity to address any of their past statements publicly before being condemned by "the paper of record".
However:
Anyone that's been paying attention to the news media knows that there is no way they would offer this opportunity or indulge this kind of a charitable interpretation. This article is likely proof of that, given that so many have not been offered the opportunity to comment on the way they/their videos have been represented.
- isbadawi 7y agohttps://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1025484876278112261 https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1025484876278112261
- avinium 7y agoI'm glad you posted this. I was aware of the original tweet a few years ago, but didn't know the context until now. I haven't read the referenced article so I can't comment on whether it's a valid criticism or not. But it's clearly satirical.
- weberc2 7y agoTo be fair, she has had a steady stream of Tweets going back to 2014 that were pretty unambiguously racist (or if you're of the "you can't be racist against white people" persuasion, some other term that means something like "anti-white"), so you could be forgiven for mistaking the context in this one case.
- fareesh 7y agohttps://imgur.com/pPiOatP https://imgur.com/pPiOatP The latter half of my comment deals with this - hint: I'm not opposed to people being given a chance to explain, or being charitable and permissive to all speech.