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Black ex-Vogue editor says she self-downgraded from first class on flight to Milan after realizing premium cabin was filled with white men
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Posted on 02/25/2026 10:40:34 AM PST by algore

A hyperwoke former Vogue editor proudly announced that she self-downgraded from first class on a flight to Milan to avoid a cabin filled with white men.

Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, 34, made the declaration on her Threads profile Tuesday evening.

The Brooklyn-based journalist wrote: 'I just downgraded myself from first class to business class on my flight to Milan.

'In a cabin of six, five of the passengers were white middle-aged men... then there was me, a 30-something black woman who travels in that cabin often, and a male flight attendant who thought I'd be okay with substandard service and persistent micro-aggression from the moment I sat down.

'He was... wrong,' Karefa-Johnson continued. 'I don't suffer fools, and I would sacrifice physical comfort to protect my emotional and mental well-being any day.'

Karefa-Johnson did not detail the microaggressions she claimed to have suffered.

The progressive activist's pronouncement about 'sacrificing physical comfort' was likely overblown, given that the business class cabin she moved to would also offer flat-bed seats and copious amenities.

Karefa-Johnson, who quit Vogue in 2023 after posting an anti-Israel rant in the wake of the October 7 massacre, quickly attracted gushing praise for her downgrade.

During her tenure as contributing editor-at-large of the fashion outlet, she got into a public feud with Kanye West after the rapper launched 'White Lives Matter' apparel in 2022.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: algore

“Karefa-Johnson did not detail the microaggressions she claimed to have suffered.”

Yeah. “Microaggressions” so MICROSCOPIC as to be all but invisible...


61 posted on 02/25/2026 11:34:35 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: algore

Look at me! I’m a black woman!


62 posted on 02/25/2026 11:38:02 AM PST by NavyShoe
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To: John S Mosby
There is a certain class of ships that do however.


63 posted on 02/25/2026 11:41:05 AM PST by xp38
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To: algore

And all of first class breathed a collective sigh of relief on that flight.


64 posted on 02/25/2026 11:42:00 AM PST by dznutz
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To: algore

“It sounds like she is the racist?”

Sounds more like she is just ugly and doesn’t want the men to ignore her. And if she thinks she will be mistreated by the airline, then why fly them?

Sounds like it’s her personal problem and not what she is trying to BS.

wy69


65 posted on 02/25/2026 11:44:01 AM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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To: Liz

She looks aggrieved...


66 posted on 02/25/2026 11:47:33 AM PST by shotgun
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To: algore

The beauty of “micro-aggressions” is that they are entirely in the mind of the person complaining, so they can be totally made up but there’s no way to disprove them.


67 posted on 02/25/2026 11:51:42 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: algore

What a sad existence, to look for racism every waking moment.


68 posted on 02/25/2026 11:53:36 AM PST by dznutz
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To: algore
No Rosa Parks She! Removed herself to the back of the airplane!
69 posted on 02/25/2026 11:53:57 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Fungi

I'm glad she flies First or Business Class ... she'd take up two seats back in Sardine Class with us peons ...

70 posted on 02/25/2026 11:54:28 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: algore
Black ex-Vogue editor says she self-downgraded from first class on flight to Milan after realizing premium cabin was filled with white men

Seems like a win all around.

71 posted on 02/25/2026 11:55:40 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: algore

Recently I leafed through an edition of Vogue while getting a haircut at the Barbers of the Lowcountry which is an old fashion, all male barbershop. When I got to the end I said out loud, “All the models in this magazine are skanks”. All the barbers broke out laughing.

Before you ask, I don’t know how the Vogue magazine got into the rack with their gun and golf magazines.


72 posted on 02/25/2026 11:56:53 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: algore

,,, clearly a racist. There’s room for her in the cargo hold.


73 posted on 02/25/2026 11:57:22 AM PST by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: algore

Yes however if you have a race card you get away with it.

Media approved.


74 posted on 02/25/2026 11:57:40 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: algore

Good! Keep first class classy. Really don’t need any self important racist 8itches there anyway. Coach or economy would be better. Better still, she should take a bus.


75 posted on 02/25/2026 11:57:46 AM PST by Colorado Doug
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To: algore
It sounds like she is the racist ?

She wouldn't think of allowing the people of other races than hers to be judged by the content of their character. Her mind is made up already.

76 posted on 02/25/2026 11:59:52 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Liz

She self-downgraded from first class.

Yeah well I bet she sweats a lot didn’t want to pay for the clean up?.


77 posted on 02/25/2026 12:00:08 PM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: algore; All

I’m sure it smelled better in first class after she moved her privileged arse back to ‘business’


78 posted on 02/25/2026 12:00:47 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: rlmorel

Good scenario.

The remake of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. She can cling to the plane’s wing later on.


79 posted on 02/25/2026 12:03:16 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: dfwgator

Only to prevent communist infiltration, indoctrination, and subversion.


80 posted on 02/25/2026 12:04:30 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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