Posted on 06/07/2022 5:26:01 AM PDT by RandFan
The Washington Post suspended reporter Dave Weigel for one month without pay over a “reprehensible” retweet, according to reports.
Weigel’s work email reportedly auto-responds to incoming emails with the following message: “I am out of the office and will return on July 5.”
Weigel’s suspension comes just a few days after fellow Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez reprimanded him on Twitter over a tweet he retweeted.
On Friday, Weigel shared a tweet sent out by YouTube host Cam Harless that joked, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” Sonmez posted a screenshot of Weigel’s retweet with the caption, “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!”
Sonmez reportedly questioned Weigel about the tweet in a company Slack channel, asking him, “I’m sorry but what is this?” She added that his retweet sent “a confusing message about what the Post’s values are.”
Although Weigel publicly apologized, his efforts were not enough to please his bosses. “I just removed a retweet of an offensive joke. I apologize and did not mean to cause any harm,” Weigel said.
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Felicia is a polar one
basically your crazy/hot matrix
btw making fun of cisgender white males is okey dokey
Oh, thats not so bad. For a minute there I thought he tweeted in support of Trump.
Communists have no sense of humor. Sounds like she was polar.
its like watching a snake eat its tail
ha ha
Spot on! Different country, different era, same principle.
A reporter interviews a 2000-year-old man
Reporter: “is it true you had over nine hundred wives in your life?”
2000 y/o Man: “Indeed”
Reporter: “out of all your wives, which one was your favorite?”
2000 y/o Man: “Hmmm… Shirley. Definitely Shirley.”
Reporter: “And what made Shirley so special?”
2000 y/o Man: “Her friend Tammy.”
LOL!! It’s funny cause it’s TRUE!
That was kind of funny.
His statement should have read: “It’s a joke. Suck it up, buttercup.”
Never apologize to the left.
Correct.
Evil cannot stand to be mocked.
Weigel couldn’t wiggle out of this one.
This is what happens when you forget for a split second that you are supposed to be woke. LOL
That’s funny!
And the idiots just proved his point!!
I’m a girl and I didn’t think it was offensive. I’ve heard way worse.
This reporter’s problem is that he works for a publication whose readership is offended by that humor.
He either needs to accept the constraints on his expression or work for a publication that appreciates his humor.
He should have made it about a man and everything would have been fine.
Every LIBERAL girl is both
“Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.”
Every WOMAN is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar AND/or sexual.
There, fixed it.
Not really. Men and Women are equally at risk of bipolar disorder:
“Most studies, but not all, report an almost equal gender ratio in the prevalence of bipolar disorder ... “
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=prevalence+of+biipolar+disorder+by+sex
Women are more at risk of depression (and maybe the joke taps into this risk).
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=prevalence+of+depression+by+sex
Without a reference, I’ll just point out that men are more at risk of schizophrenia.
ON THE OTHER HAND bisexuality (defined only as attraction, not necessarily as behavior) IS more prevalent among women
Women 50 percent
Men 20 percent
see p. 10 of
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/01/06/nhsr88.pdf
BTW I think a suspension is fine if this is a first offense.
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