I think that hiring someone as an editor who has a long public history of very racist tweets, reflects very poorly on the New York Times.
I am not part of any 'online mob', nor am I misogynist or alt-right.
I am not part of any 'online mob', nor am I misogynist or alt-right.
...but the linked article, and the NYT's statement, already said as much in rather easy-to-understand terms. Which makes me suspect that their further explanation of "bad faith" might also be relevant here.
This argument makes no sense, I have not written misogynist statements at all, let alone a whole twitter feed full of them.
>but the linked article, and the NYT's statement, already said as much in rather easy-to-understand terms.
I found the excuse in the statement unplausible, these were not responses to any hostile tweets, at best they were racist comments made for shits and giggles rather than being her actual views.
The alt-right was on the verge of defusing the "racist" accusation as an effective weapon in the culture wars.
The NYT's Sarah Jeong stunt effortlessly made alt-right types literally crawl over each other to be first to accuse the NYT of "racism", in the process affirming the supreme moral severity of the accusation to themselves.
Very smart play on the part of the NYT.