> The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur The NYT published its piece after the "destruction" [1] happened, so it's pret

> The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur The NYT published its piece after the "destruction" [1] happened, so it's pretty inaccurate to say it "helped" with that. The actors in this sequence of events are the students, a social media mob, and a university not the newspaper that wrote a story about it. What's really going with this piece is that Robby Soave of Reason magazine and some other people are mad that the story got coverage at all and/or NYT didn't vilify the person they wanted vilified when it decided to cover it. Which is a somewhat incoherent position, since even if you're opposed to "cancellation," you'd want cancellations covered in reputable media (rather than in some partisan backwater). [1] which apparently is defined as not getting to be a cheerleader at your preferred university