just another feckless...
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.
A guy just lost his massive pizza franchise for way, way less. Way less.
For years growing up the N.Y. Times and Wash. Post were the daily news bible.
They now aren’t worth butt wipe.
Eddie Murphy. I miss that guy.
“Kill the white people!
Yeah
We gonna make’m hurt!
Kill the white people!
But buy my record first!”
I certainly was inarticulate, because I completely agree with that.
She is Korean. And don’t go down just to make a lame point. It makes you look worse than she does.
So they want to hang some pitcher that posted some stupid stuff at 17, but this is Okey Dokey. Got it. So not enemy of Americans, just white Americans.
She was born in S. Korea. Is it possible that her rage toward white males is because her mother was Korean and her dad was a black military stationed in S. Korea. She seems to have a sick attitude toward white males for some reason.
Did she and her mom return with the black dad to the USA, and as a child growing up she felt that her dad was not treated fairly by white males? If so, then why doesn’t she just say so. Something is very wrong with this woman, and it isn’t a normal thing.
just another feckless...
RE editorial writer :
Yeah I saw some of the crap this little POS posted.
She seems to forget that “White people” (as well as other folks) crossed the Ocean to rescue HER native South Korea from butchering communists.
She owes EVERYTHING to the “white man”.
Probably why she’s so jealous of us.
I would describe her as human waste.
There IS nobody worse that she is.
“Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism “
William McGowan
classic double standard. Had a white person said the exact same things about any minority, they wouldn’t be hired by the NY Times and would be fired immediately if they were employed by the NY Times.
Everything she has, uses, buys, etc., - a White Guy designed it, engineered it, built it, made it inexpensive enough for some little tw*t like her to be able to afford it.
Like I said: she and others with her mindset would be NOWHERE without the White Guy.
And one more thing - she wouldn’t be able to LIVE in a wonderful country like this if it wasn’t for “the White Guys”.
So basically, dear little Sarah - go piss up a rope.
Mindless Sarah, the reprehensible excuse for a human being, should take herself to North Korea as a play toy.
The media are the enemy of the people.
Seems she has much more in common with communist scumbags than she does with Americans.
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