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.