Posted on 08/02/2018 11:46:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The New York Times stood by its decision to hire technology writer Sarah Jeong to its editorial board despite the emergence of racially insensitive tweets she had posted a few years ago.
Jeong was hired by The Times on Wednesday, but the newspaper soon received strong backlash from social media and some conservative outlets after tweets emerged in which the technology writer made racially insensitive comments.
“Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men,” Jeong, 49, said in a tweet from 2014 that has since deleted.
“Dumbass f–ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” Jeong said in another 2014 tweet.
A third tweet posted by Jeong in 2014 said: “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.”
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."
"We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done covering the internet and technology at a range of respected publications," The Times said.
The Times added that Jeong, as a "young Asian woman," had been the "subject of frequent online harassment," and that "for a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers."
The newspaper added that Jeong knows "now that this approach only served to feed the vitriol that we too often see on social media. She regrets it, and The Times does not condone it."
Meanwhile, Jeong, in the Times statement, expressed regret for the tweets.
"I engaged in what I thought of at the time of counter-trolling. While it was intended as satire, I deeply regret that I mimicked the language of my harassers," she said.
"These comments were not aimed at a general audience, because general audiences do not engage in harassment campaigns. I can understand how hurtful these posts are out of context, and would not do it again." The Times response comes after conservative outlets and social media slammed the paper for condoning "racist" remarks.
"Newest Member of NYT Editorial Board Has History of Racist Tweets" read a headline in National Review. Meanwhile, The Federalist posted a story with the headline "New York Times Hires Left-Wing Writer With Long History Of Racist Tweets," while Daily Caller said: "NYTIMES’ NEWEST HIRE SENT TONS OF ANTI-WHITE RACIST TWEETS."
Jeong also faced criticism from social media for her posts.
Twitter has become a controversial social media platform in the current political climate, with high-profile journalists saying they might leave the platform after tweets attacking them and family members.
Racist bitch, ain’t she?
So do these tweets that supposedly said horrible things about her exist somewhere? Or did they somehow evaporate while hers didn't. Oh, such bad luck there.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Intended satirically. Her apology:
“So solly. Rots of ruck.”
Good thing she’s not a young major league pitcher who made questionable comments on twitter when they were 16-17 years old
“”I engaged in what I thought of at the time of counter-trolling.”
Tempting, but best not to get down in the mud at all.
Double standard is context would not matter for conservatives.
The nyt has declared to the world where it stands. It has chosen to side with those who hate Whites and plan to take all of Whitey’s money, and then eliminate Whitey.
Good to know who is your enemy in a war.
She looks as though she could have some “mental issues”. Still spray painting her head at age 49? Yikes. I wonder if she is snorting condoms and eating Tide pods too.
OUCH. That will leave a mark.
As she spouts on the internet invented by white males, living in a free and wealthy nation founded by white males, sitting in buildings planned and mostly built by white males, under A/C invented by a white male, under lights invented by a white male. When we go, all that will soon follow us. I’m sure she’s fine with that too, sitting on the ground in a mud hut, without even a whiff of the idea of the wheel. Not that she’ll live long enough to enjoy it, once the diseases to which white males found the cures come back.
And it wasn’t just one or two.
There are lots of mean tweets.
Progressive privilege
OK, she’s racist. Is she also a dyke? That would fit the pattern
Ask her to show the troll posts she was trolling.
Bet she can’t.
It’s already almost legal to attack us anyway. I would bet that not many of the blacks practicing “polar bear hunting” or the “knock-out game” get a slap on the wrist, if that.
This monster is a foreign invader from Korea .
This is how they really view us in private .
So if David Duke gives weak as well water “apology”, the left has not a thing to say of President Trump hires him. I wish that he would, and dare them to do a thing about it, in light of this.
I flat don’t believe her. She’s a lying liar. The kind of hatred she expressed is not the kind which comes from mere “response”. It’s deep within her, and she’s given it much thought (of the leftist kind).
There is a lot of venom in that snake.
I would hate to be her husband, or even just a neighbor.
The NYT used to have a style sheet that contained their personal journalism rules. They need one for protected groups and which behaviors condoned according to group membership. It would be nice to have such a legend printed at the top of their web page and paper news.
African Americans can behave like this and say these things.
Gays and transgenders can behave like this and say these things.
White heterosexuals cannot diverge 1% from the highest expectations of etiquette and political correctness, retroactive to birth.
Leftist journalists are free to speak and behave exactly as they wish always.
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