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Dangerous questions! This is the world Americans now live in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr.#Dismissal_from_The_New_York_Times https://en.wik

• yosamino 6y ago
  Incidentally and apropos to the subject at hand, McNeil's apology is a pretty good one: “I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” McNeil said in his note to the staff. “I should not have done that. Originally, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended. I now realize that it cannot. It is deeply offensive and hurtful. The fact that I even thought I could defend it itself showed extraordinarily bad judgment. For that I apologize.” https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-jr-ousted-after-using-n-word-with-students/ https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-jr-o...
  • enriquto 6y ago
    It's not a good apology. It's a sad surrendering of one's dignity to appease an angry mob.
    • seoulbran 6y ago
      Exactly. Keep up the good fight. The well-intentioned like yosamino are blindly walking off the cliff.
      • yosamino 6y ago
        You did notice that I specifically commented on the structure of the apology wrt to the contents of the article - not about it's neccessity ? > good fight. Good fight for what specifically ?