Posted on 03/03/2021 3:26:42 PM PST by Rummyfan
I was a mere 70 pages into Donald McNeil’s brief about his firing from The New York Times when I emailed a dozen of my friends to demand they read it immediately. But they don’t have my perseverance, so here are the highlights.
Two years after McNeil chaperoned a group of high schoolers on a trip to Peru to learn about rural health care, The Daily Beast published an article detailing the students’ list of denunciations against him, including the career-ending claim that he’d used the “N-word.”
Days later, it came out that he had used the word in response to a student’s question about a high school girl who’d been suspended from school for using the infamous word. He repeated it in order to ask how she’d said it.
This paragraph, particularly the parenthetical, is all you need to know about McNeil’s misadventure in Peru:
“At some point, a student took issue with my having said the U.S. wasn’t a colonial power, saying something like: ‘Don’t you realize what the CIA has done? Don’t you realize that the United Fruit Company interfered in central America to protect its banana monopoly?’ … (This student herself was white, from Greenwich, CT and went to Andover but mentioned multiple times over the week that she had a Latino boyfriend and he had opened her eyes to a different view of the world …)”
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Heck that's nothing. Wait until the student learns about this:
HuffPo: Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward
“McNeil chaperoned a group of high schoolers on a trip to Peru to learn about rural health care”
Shouldn’t those kids have graduated from Med School or a School of Public Health before going on a tour of Peruvian rural Health Care?
How did they have any grounding in what they were about to see? Did they do any research/doumentation?
I love reading AC’s columns when she’s on her game. Her skill at snark is unmatched.
Since when do leftists care about anti-Semitism?
Aren’t they all on-board with BDS?
Nor that I think the n-word should have the sanctified status that it does, but he couldn’t have just used “n-word” instead of saying the actual word?
“Twenty of the 22 students were girls. All appear to be complete idiots.”
George Orwell had an interesting observation about this in 1984: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
NEIGHBOR NEIGHBOR NEIGHBOR!!!
I can see any number of ProgParents thinking this was a good idea.
What kind of HS kid wanted to this with summer?
“George Orwell had an interesting observation about this in 1984”
I wonder when they are going to try banning 1984. You know it’s coming. It hits too close to home.
“Bitch set me up.”
Just take them to Appalachia.
Oh wait, those are white Americans, they don’t count.
I just looked on Amazon and 1984 and Animal Farm are available in all formats including kindle. FWIW.
You don't mention that the versions that Amazon pulled were put on the site by a seller who didn't have the rights to the books.
LOL!
Imagine what would have happened if the chaperone said he owned firearms!
That’s stupid white girls/women/their effeminate sons. Because the US committed racists acts, engaged in scam medical studies, imperialism, genocide, the government should be given even more power.
Bkmk
Well, that’s something we all should do as a precaution going forward, but it’s neither here nor there. The point is this man did nothing that warranted his losing his career.
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