April 1, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| Teen Vogue is not my demo. | |
| It's probably not yours. | |
| But the magazine just hired a 27-year-old black female named Alexi McCammon to be their new editor. | |
| Now, it turns out, 10 years earlier, when she was 17 years old, she posted a series of tweets that were anti-Asian and anti-gay. | |
| She brought them up during the interview. | |
| And they said, well, thank you for bringing them up, and you were 17 years old 10 years ago. | |
| Hired her. | |
| But then staffers found out about the tweets, pitched a fit, and now she's been fired. | |
| So, cancel culture did not save her because of the rising amount of hate crimes against Asian Americans and because of this cancel culture. | |
| And it didn't matter that she was a black female and it didn't matter that she apologized profusely and that this was 10 years earlier when she was 17 for crying out loud. | |
| McCammond added, I should not have tweeted what I did and I have taken full responsibility for that. | |
| I look at my work and growth in the years since, and have redoubled my commitment to growing in the years to come as both a person and as a professional. | |
| In her statement, she said, I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities. | |
| As a young woman of color, that's part of the reason I was so excited to lead the Teen Vogue team in their next chapter. | |
| Now as said, after she was hired, but before she reported for duty, there was a mutiny by staffers. | |
| Last week, a group of 20-plus Teen Vogue staffers posted a statement on Twitter saying they had sent a letter complaining about McCammon's tweets to Conde Nast Management. | |
| In a moment of historically high anti-Asian violence and amid the ongoing struggles of the LGBTQ community, we as the staff of Teen Vogue fully reject these sentiments, the group said in the statement. | |
| And this former Teen Vogue editor just put the hammer down. | |
| Everybody knows that I was the former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, okay? | |
| So I have to put that out there. | |
| That aside, it doesn't matter. | |
| Her tweets and the sentiments behind them were racist and abhorrent and indefensible. | |
| Can we hold the phone here? | |
| What exactly were the offensive tweets? | |
| In 2011, again when she was 17, she tweeted, quote, Outdone by an Asian, hashtag what's new. | |
| Now Googling how to not wake up with swollen Asian eyes, end of quote. | |
| Again, she was 17. | |
| She brought him up during the interview. | |
| It's not like she was hiding anything. | |
| Here's another one. | |
| Give me a 210 on my chemistry problem. | |
| Cross out all of my work and don't explain what I did wrong. | |
| Thanks a lot, stupid Asian TA teaching assistant. | |
| You're great." End of quote. | |
| She also posted things like calling something so gay. | |
| And as mentioned, at first Teen Vogue was okay, and then later on they put out a statement. | |
| We agreed that it was best to part ways so as not to overshadow the important work happening at Teen Vogue. | |
| It's fair to say that Alexi McCammon's appointment with Teen Vogue brought many difficult and important conversations to the forefront over the last few weeks." That was swift, abrupt, fatal. | |
| So, can somebody please explain to me Emerson Beheehaw's Joy Reid, who, when she was, what, 42 years old, about 10 years ago, had a blog in which she had a series of homophobic posts, including saying she couldn't stand the sight of two grown men kissing. | |
| And she first denied that she posted them, and then she admitted it, and then she said she'd been hacked, and then she agreed she hadn't been hacked, and then she apologized again, and she still has her job. | |
| Joy Reid, the MSNBC host, apologized back in December after the discovery of some homophobic web posts that she had written a decade ago. | |
| But when media-eyed recently unearthed more posts in that era mocking gay people and homosexuality, really ugly stuff, Reid came up with a rather far-fetched explanation that she'd been hacked, which had to have occurred back when she was little known. | |
| And yesterday, Reid admitted that she can't prove any hacking. | |
| I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me. | |
| But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. | |
| Did you see the Joy Ann Reed story? | |
| Did you see that from MSNBC? That was a crazy one as well. | |
| She had statements from old blog posts where she wrote stuff that was really disparaging to gay people. | |
| And she actually apologized about it. | |
| I think it was like six months ago. | |
| She came out and said, hey, I'm really sorry. | |
| I believe these things and I've changed and I'm sorry for having these views. | |
| And people seemed like they were over it. | |
| And then it came back again. | |
| And I thought she was just gonna say, yeah, as I said, I'm sorry. | |
| But then this time she was like, no, no, I got hacked. | |
| And people are like, what? | |
| And she's like, yeah, I got hacked. | |
| Someone hacked into my blogs from 2010 and wrote these things. | |
| And I'm like, okay, wait, but you already said sorry. | |
| She's like, no, I said sorry for the other things. | |
| These ones, I got hacked. | |
| Hacked? | |
| NBC hires computer forensic investigators to find out whether or not she'd been hacked. | |
| She wasn't hacked. | |
| So, she apologizes again. | |
| When a friend found them in December and sent them to me, I was stunned. | |
| Frankly, I couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice that was. | |
| In the months since, I've spent a lot of time trying to make sense of these posts. | |
| I hired cybersecurity experts to see if somebody had manipulated my words or my former blog. | |
| And the reality is they have not been able to prove it. | |
| But here's what I know. | |
| I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things. | |
| But to be precise, she didn't say she wasn't hacked. | |
| She just said they could find no proof that she'd been hacked. | |
| Just saying. | |
| The question is, Frau Helm, were you lying then? | |
| Are you lying now? | |
| Or are you not in fact a chronic and habitual liar? | |
| Because they are completely alien to me. | |
| But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. | |
| But like I said, she apologized. | |
| I have sinned against you, my lord. | |
| And I would ask that you're precious. | |
| I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. | |
| I own that. | |
| I get it. | |
| And for that, I am truly, truly sorry. | |
| So Joy Reid keeps her job, but the Teen Vogue editor, well... | |
| And this brings us to Sarah Zhang, a young Asian-American who just got hired to the New York Times editorial board despite a series of anti-white and anti-cop tweets. | |
| She, nevertheless, got hired. | |
| The latest hire for the New York Times editorial board comes with impressive credentials. | |
| Harvard Law grad, articles in the Atlantic, Washington Post, and the Times Magazine. | |
| But Sarah Jung also comes with the baggage of inflammatory and racist Twitter posts, which unleashed a fierce backlash on some conservative websites. | |
| Jung tweeted between 2013 and 2015 that white men are groveling goblins and BS. Dumbass blanking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs blanking on fire hydrants. | |
| Oh man, it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men. | |
| I dare you to get on Wikipedia and play things white people can definitely take credit for. | |
| It's really hard. | |
| As mentioned, the New York Times, well, they hired her anyway. | |
| Times said in a statement today that her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. | |
| For a period of time, she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers. | |
| She sees now this approach only served to feed the vitriol. | |
| She regrets it, and the Times does not condone it. | |
| In her own response, Jiang said the tweets were intended as satire, and she understands how hurtful they seem out of context. | |
| One of the most bizarre defenses of Ms. | |
| Jiang came from Simone Sanders, who was a campaign manager in the Bernie Sanders campaign and is now a top staffer in the Biden administration. | |
| She says, well, A minority person, because a minority person doesn't have power, by definition cannot be racist. | |
| Some of the tweets are taken out of context. | |
| I think in Sarah's explanation, she noted that some of it was counter-trolling. | |
| Would I have written anything like that? | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| But it's not racist for this reason. | |
| One, Don, racism, being racist, is not just prejudice. | |
| It's prejudice plus power. | |
| So one could argue that some of her tweets, even within context, note that she has a prejudice, perhaps, against white men. | |
| But that, in fact, does not make her racist. | |
| Come again? | |
| Racism, being racist is not just prejudice, it's prejudice plus power. | |
| This commentator nailed it. | |
| I think there is a great deal that is sad here and what it reflects is what is really sad about identity politics in America in general, that race is your defining characteristic and if you are somebody who is not white you get to say all kinds of vile things about white people and there's no consequence. | |
| And I think what is sad here is that here is a young woman who is obviously very smart, smart enough to get into Harvard, and yet she spends all her time saying all these nasty things about white people. | |
| She knows they're at least racially tinged, if not racist, but she goes on doing that because that's how she's been taught. | |
| So, Sarah Jong, okay. | |
| Joy Reid, okay. | |
| Speaking of whom, poor Miss Former Teen Vogue could only wish to get the kind of love and support, grace, compassion, and understanding and perspective given to Joy Reid by people like MSNBCs, excuse me, CNNs. | |
| What's the difference? | |
| Don Lamond. | |
| What do you think about this whole Joy Reid controversy? | |
| Do you think she actually wrote those blog posts, or do you think she was hacked? | |
| It's not really clear. | |
| Here's what I have to say. | |
| I think I don't know enough about the story to comment on it, but I will tell you, and again, I don't really know about it. | |
| I haven't investigated it. | |
| I know Joy Reid. | |
| I think she's an important voice. | |
| I would hate to hear or see that voice be squashed. | |
| But if she did something wrong, then she has to suffer the consequences. | |
| But as a person, as a human being and as a journalist, I support her and I think she's an amazing person. | |
| But if she did something wrong, then, you know, we'll see what happens. | |
| A lot of people do things wrong. | |
| They apologize. | |
| I'm not perfect. | |
| I've made mistakes. | |
| Apologize and see where it goes from there. | |
| Now, we don't always agree with Mr. | |
| Lamont. | |
| Well, first, I want to tell you, I did come up with a drink called the Lemon Ricky. | |
| It's half pompous, half ass. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the cancel culture. | |
| No rhyme, no rules, no reason. | |
| Just try to avoid getting canceled. | |
| Now, can you imagine what the late night comics would have done had Donald Trump fallen not once, not twice, but three times trying to climb Air Force One? | |
| The late night comics would have had a field day. | |
| Here's your host, Jimmy Fallon! | |
| And finally, President Donald Trump failed three times trying to climb Air Force One. | |
| Why, that's only one more time that he's been impeached. | |
| From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live! | |
| Tonight! | |
| And finally, President Donald Trump fell three times trying to climb the stairs to Air Force One. | |
| And when he got to the top, he turned around and waved and said, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" "It's the Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Well President Trump fell three times trying to climb the stairs leading to Air Force One No, he did not suffer a head concussion, but staffers say as a precautionary measure going forward, the President will be wearing knee pads, shin guards, and a padded helmet. | |
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