NY Times defends hiring of editorial writer after emergence of past racial tweets

The Hill ^ | 08/02/18 | Joe Concha

[\/\/ayne]

Hate trumps journalism - at the NY Times.

[HangnJudge]

Hypocrites!

[Red Badger]

She’s a liberal Dem so the rules don’t apply at the NYT...............

[BenLurkin]

Bttt

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This is what you call institutionalized racism. Substitute the word "black" for "white" into her screeds and she wouldn't have even made it through the front door.

I'm gobsmacked. Who would have thought that the New York Times doesn't live by what they preach? </sarc>

 

[Secret Agent Man]

Rationalization for the people they like.

[EagleUSA]

Just more DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY. Same ole s..t.

[TLI]

While it was intended as satire, I deeply regret that I mimicked the language of my harassers

Satire?

Not buying it, lets see the "harrassing" tweets.

Or were they actually responses...

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

She’ll fit right in.

[Leaning Right]

> “I engaged in what I thought of at the time of counter-trolling.” <

Counter-trolling! Sweet! I wonder how long it took Sarah Jeong to think that one up. Is it too late for Roseanne Barr to also use that excuse?

[lee martell]

These insults are very clear and very direct.
There is nothing ‘ironic or satiric’ about any of the sadistic things she proclaimed about herself.
She needs to go. That IS who she is.

[Tenacious 1]

“She didn’t mean it and is sorry.” -—> For leftists, that is all that is required.

[rktman]

Nothing to defend from what I hear. The new hire is racis’ against white folks so it’s all good.

[Obadiah]

[dirtymac]

Start packin because it will soon be legal to kill white people

[pepsi_junkie]

The Times said in a statement on Thursday that it stood by its decision to hire Jeong, adding it had reviewed the writer's social media accounts prior to her hiring, while calling the content of the tweets "unacceptable."

Yet they accepted her. So forgive me for feeling the Times is not being honest here.

[9YearLurker]

Liberals are so much better at slithering out of stuff than conservatives are.

[laconic]

Strange, aren’t they going to parade her around in public with gnashing acts of contrition like they do with the baseball players who wrote some private Tweet when they were 14?

[gathersnomoss]

Crayola looks exquisite.