You FREAK. You're no EDITOR. You could not even spell "judgment"."On Monday night, I sent a tweet responding to the fact that mass shooters are most likely to be white men. It was a dashed off over-generalization, tweeted after pictures of the shooter being taken into custody surfaced online. It was a careless error of judgement, sent at a heated time, that doesn’t represent my commitment to racial equality. I regret sending it. I apologized and deleted the tweet.
I’ve often written that, in sports, the burden of speaking out against racism, sexism and homophobia often falls on the shoulders of marginalized players. Within USA TODAY, most of this work is also done by racialized reporters. In my case, I rarely, if ever, had the support of USA TODAY’s top editors. When the fall out from each column left me vulnerable to social media attacks and harassment, USA TODAY never offered public, institutional support.
As a columnist and editor, I’ve had to walk the fine line of advocating for diverse and better stories, while also realizing that the comfort of our white audiences needed to be kept top of mind. On social media, that is what I failed at. There is nothing so offensive to some readers as calling out white supremacy, or, as the backlash over this Oral Roberts University column shows, taking a difficult stand for true equality and inclusion.
Meanwhile, white USA TODAY reporters have been able to minimize racialized people in print, our white Editor-In-Chief was thoughtless about black face, and a senior politics editor (also white) showed disregard for journalistic ethics by hosting a tax payer funded reception for Trump appointees. All kept their jobs. Going outside of USA TODAY, there’s an even longer list of high-profile white journalists who stayed in their positions after accusations of sexual assault, using the n-word, and editorial negligence."
Meanwhile your upper-caste family is having your room prepared for you by all their lower-caste slaves.
You f^cked up caste-ing aspersions against Oral Roberts -- every last person at that University is commanded to a code of conduct, while instead Gannett gave you enough rope. You are nothing more than an on-fleek fakir. Leave. Now.
“Judgment” is the common spelling of the word, but “judgement” is also acceptable.
Yeah, it's a pie fight BUT the other side is mostly composed of frozen water aka snowflakes. Witness Teigen: "oh, mah lawd, the negativity, I must cancel my Twitter ... get me my smelling salts, Hemal."
"Racialized people"?
You can't make this stuff up.