'WaPo' Blackface Story Takes Cancel Culture To New Extreme

Mediapost ^ | June 19 2020 | by Rob Williams

[rintintin]

The Washington Post this week published a story that didn't serve any purpose — except to help two nobodies destroy the life of another nobody. It's a baffling case of terrible news judgment, contradictory reporting and cancel culture taken to the extreme. The 3,000-word report starts off with the misleading headline, "Blackface incident at Post cartoonist's 2018 Halloween party resurfaces amid protests." "Resurfaces" is an inaccurate way to describe an event that was never covered in the past, as far as I can tell from a Google search. "Blackface incident" is gripping, however.

The story goes on to provide a hazy account about an argument among people who attended a yearly costume party hosted by Tom Toles, a WaPo editorial cartoonist. According to the newspaper, people often attend dressed as public figures, such as Supreme Court justices.

A middle-aged white woman named Sue Schafer attended the party wearing blackface makeup as part of a tasteless joke mocking former NBC morning show host Megyn Kelly. Kelly had been fired that month for an offensive explanation of how wearing blackface can be acceptable. Schafer wore a business suit and a name tag that said, "I'm Megyn Kelly."

Among the people who said they confronted Schafer about her costume were Lexie Gruber, now a 27-year-old woman of Puerto Rican descent, and Lyric Prince, a 36-year-old African American woman. What happened next is a little unclear, with Gruber claiming that Schafer "harassed two young women of color."

Another account suggests that Gruber screamed at Schafer and forced her to leave.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The funny thing is Tom Toles is an insane far left extremist cartoonist.

[Steely Tom]

That's quite a word.

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[Bonemaker]

All these losers could have stabbed each other for all I care.

[ifinnegan]

“The funny thing is Tom Toles is an insane far left extremist cartoonist.”

Extreme.

They all are.

So ha ha.

Eating each other.

[elbook]

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Obama once talked to a Whiteman - What a disgusting Uncle Tom ... Statues soon be falling ....

Leftists are not interested in Uniting People.

.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Gruber? Ahh yes, a famous old Puerto Rican name. Here is a picture of her dad:

[I want the USA back]

Careful. What you wear at a halloween costume party is being scrutinized by the thought police. You will be fired 30 years later if some specially-privileged person complains.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Schafer wasn’t impersonating a black person — she was impersonating a white woman impersonating a black person. I.O.W., she was mocking and deriding a white woman, who wore blackface for the wrong reasons. How very politically correct of her.

[palmer]

The two complainants:

The defendant

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re “Lexie Gruber, now a 27 year old woman of Puerto Rican decent”.

QUESTION: What was she before she was 27 years old, a Jamaican, Mexican, Afro-American, Hasidic Jew, Italian, or Vietnamese?