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Teen Vogue editor, 27, resigns over anti-Asian tweets she wrote as a teenager after Conde Nast lost a seven-figure ad campaign over her appointment: Anna Wintour KNEW about racist tweets but still hired her 13 days agoTeen Vogue's new editor Alexi McCammond has resigned less than two weeks after taking the job over anti-Asian tweets she wrote as a teenager which surfaced online and cost Conde Nast a seven-figure ad campaign.
McCammond's resurfaced tweets include one in which she wrote: 'Googling how to not wake up with swollen Asian eyes'.
Another now-deleted tweet read: 'Give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don't explain what I did wrong… thanks a lot stupid Asian T.A. you're great.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9377635/Teen-Vogue-editor-27-resigns-racist-tweets-wrote-teenager.html
McCammond issued a lengthy apology on March 9.
'What an awful introduction we've had to each other this week.
'This has been one of the hardest weeks of my life in large part because of the intense pain I know my words and my announcement have caused so many of you.
'I've apologized for my past racist and homophobic tweets and will reiterate that there's no excuse for perpetuating those awful stereotypes in any way,' she said.
The tweets were all written in 2011, when she was in high school, long before she took a job in journalism.
Before Axios, she also worked at MSNBC.
Originally after the tweets surfaced, she called them 'idiotic' and 'offensive' but not racist.
She then came under pressure to acknowledge that they are racist from stars including Olivia Munn.
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Hugin
(37,840 posts)Hmm...
"Reporter gives up covering Biden for relationship with his aide: ‘Didn’t think twice’"
Stephanie Guerilus
February 9, 2021
Alexi McCammond and TJ Ducklo informed their bosses of their romance to avoid any professional conflict
Axios reporter Alexi McCammond fell in love while on the campaign trail with one of President Joe Biden’s aides and has now given up the beat.
McCammond, 27, is a political reporter at Axios who covers progressive politicians in Congress, the progressive movement, and Vice President Kamala Harris. She was assigned to cover Biden’s campaign in 2019 and 2020. During that time, she fell in love with TJ Ducklo who was then Biden’s press secretary.
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McCammond and Ducklo, 32, started dating in November. They both informed their bosses so that there would be no appearance of conflict. She “asked to be taken off of the Biden beat,” and was reassigned to Vice President Harris.
“When my personal life had the potential to interfere with my work, I didn’t think twice about sharing my happiness in November with Axios that I’d found someone in TJ who shows up for me in a way I’d only hoped for,” she told People.
She continued that Axios has been understanding of her position and was mindful of how her work could be undermined.
From: https://news.yahoo.com/reporter-gives-covering-biden-relationship-194500127.html
Hugin
(37,840 posts)Daily Mail vs Yahoo.
Dangerous undertow in both.
Please, be careful. 
dalton99a
(94,093 posts)
demmiblue
(39,691 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)If you’re looking for perfection in everyone, good luck.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)I’d probably be banned from everywhere. People grow and evolve, they learn from life’s experience. I think some of these things that people are held to account for after ten, twenty, thirty years or more are absurd.
I recently saw a picture of myself wearing a shirt I bought in North Carolina in the 80’s when I was in high school and it was absolutely mortifying. I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that today but some people would look at it and consider it as my current sentiments. They’d try to ruin my life over it and it would be ridiculous. I’m not that seventeen year old kid deliberately being provocative for laughs anymore.
Some things you just have to chalk up to being a dumb kid. Resigning from her job over this fits that bill in my opinion.
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,930 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)Confederate flag, ignorant slogan. Pretty embarrassing. I thought it would be shocking to people but looking back on it now, no one really cared or they simply agreed with it, which says a lot about the widespread racism that was accepted at the time in my community. People were bothered a lot more by the Heavy Metal band shirts I wore.
LeftInTX
(34,216 posts)Didn't have a shirt, but everyone said homophobic stuff......
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,930 posts)I graduated in 1975 and I never heard a word about gay anything when I was in high school. I realize that people were very closeted at that time, but not being gay or closeted, you just didn't hear that stuff out in the open like you do now.
LeftInTX
(34,216 posts)My sister was in theater arts and there were rumors about some of the guys...
There was also rumors about the gym teacher, but I seriously doubt that one. I think that rumor started because she liked giving out Fs and making everyone work their butt off. (She was married with kids etc....so I don't think so.......) Nobody liked her...But that's very homophobic to spread rumors about someone because no one likes you....
In the fall of 1974, someone made moves on one of my friends. We both freaked out about. We were so naive...
Cha
(318,900 posts)superior.. but in ALL my Years.. I never even thought anything "racist".. I actually went out of my way to stand against those who did.
It's weird.. 'cause my dad certainly was in Colorado but my Mom was not.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)Vicious racism was just the way it was in my neighborhood when I was a kid. No one gave it a second thought. That’s the shit I was taught. But getting to know people outside of that circle really enlightened me to the fact that everything I was told in that regard was wrong. I became a fierce anti-racist and delighted in smashing Nazi skinheads in the mosh pits at concerts. People grow and evolve if they’re smart, I certainly did.
Cha
(318,900 posts)I remember my dad found out when I was in grade school that my friend's father was Black & he wouldn't let me hang out with her.
I was crushed.. how traumatic for a kid.
leftstreet
(40,555 posts)Uh, no. That's not about being dumb. That's about being indoctrinated into something, embracing the indoctrination that makes you feel superior to others, and then realizing how destructive and wrong it was. Takes smarts to do that.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)The indoctrination was so strong, those sentiments so normalized that I assumed everyone was like that everywhere. Life’s experience taught me that it was all a bunch of bullshit and I disavowed all of it. I threw it off and became the exact opposite of those people. I didn’t want to be like that.
A Soundgarden song called “Ugly Truth” really said it all for me.
I painted my eyes, cause ugly isn’t what I want to see.
I painted my mind, cause ugly isn’t what I want to be.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)But I knew better than to be a bigot, or even to say bigoted things.
"Your mileage, of course, may vary..." 
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)My neighborhood certainly indoctrinated everyone into that bullshit way of thinking. That’s the way everyone was, it was normality. I threw it off when I discovered they had it all wrong.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Having myself grown up in the deep south in a town of good ol' boys has never been an excuse I use to rationalize my past behavior... because even as a teen, I knew bigotry for what it was.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)I’m ok with myself. I know I got it right in the end.
RobinA
(10,478 posts)the Members Only jacket have to do with this subject?
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)without making racist comments. These two seem to have really cooked their respective gooses.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)You obviously weren’t taught that shit as truth from basically birth.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Perhaps you know them?
demmiblue
(39,691 posts)People who claim that they have never uttered a racist, homophobic, misogynistic and/or a bigoted comment in their life are full of shite, imo. But, I guess it makes them feel better to make that claim. A little self-reflection is a good thing... it makes one a better person.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,983 posts)I questioned whether I should post the personal part at all but I’m as proud of my evolution as I am embarrassed by my past ignorance. I’m glad I got it right and I’m glad I broke that ugly chain with my kids. I’ve never had to correct them along those lines. A lot of the younger generation benefitted from people who have stories similar to my own who simply said “this has to stop”.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Much less speak those bigoted words.
demmiblue
(39,691 posts)Which is why people need to make a routine inventory of their thought patterns in regard to those who are different from themselves. Those who don't think they have biases, such as Tom Cotton, are fooling themselves. Or lying. Or simply do not care to self-reflect.
Amidst a controversy, it’s important to remember that implicit bias is real—and it matters
When is the last time a stereotype popped into your mind? If you are like most people, the authors included, it happens all the time. That doesn’t make you a racist, sexist or whatever-ist. It just means your brain is working properly, noticing patterns and making generalizations. But the same thought processes that make people smart can also make them biased. This tendency for stereotype-confirming thoughts to pass spontaneously through our minds is what psychologists call implicit bias. It sets people up to overgeneralize, sometimes leading to discrimination even when people feel they are being fair.
Studies of implicit bias have recently drawn ire from both right and left. For the right, talk of implicit bias is just another instance of progressives seeing injustice under every bush. For the left, implicit bias diverts attention from more damaging instances of explicit bigotry. Debates have become heated and have leaped from scientific journals to the popular press. Along the way, some important points have been lost. We highlight two misunderstandings that anyone who wants to understand implicit bias should know about.
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One reason people on both the right and the left are skeptical of implicit bias might be pretty simple: it isn’t nice to think we aren’t very nice. It would be comforting to conclude, when we don’t consciously entertain impure intentions, that all of our intentions are pure. Unfortunately, we can’t conclude that: many of us are more biased than we realize. And that is an important cause of injustice—whether you know it or not.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-think-about-implicit-bias/
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)demmiblue
(39,691 posts)
Celerity
(54,336 posts)
RobinA
(10,478 posts)was walking around my college campus with an iPhone taking pictures. They would have caught me breaking any number of nuisance laws. My political career, had I wanted one, would be a shambles.
sciencescience
(117 posts)Who is actually going back and looking up all this stuff and getting it on the news. What she did was bad, but there are many more more pressing issues to deal with than stuff like this.
BannonsLiver
(20,561 posts)Pretty much the only kind of reporting he does. He doesn’t seem to be involved in outing this person which is mildly surprising.
FelineOverlord
(3,851 posts)
BradAllison
(1,879 posts)Shouldn't the average skew younger there?
FelineOverlord
(3,851 posts)Yes, but apparently she didn't have editorial experience so I thought it was strange they made her editor-in-chief.
Anyway, she is getting lots of sympathy in the replies to her tweet.
What I don't understand is why she didn't get rid of her ancient tweets YEARS ago. I usually purge most of my old ones.
BradAllison
(1,879 posts)
eppur_se_muova
(41,899 posts)Finding out who her faince is -- the guy who threatened to "destroy" a reporter -- doesn't help.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)It seems she and her boyfriend have really managed to damage their careers quite badly. I wouldn’t have guessed her as someone who would make such callous and racist jokes.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)then you have the problem.
No one is totally perfect and no one is 100% pure.
This is silly and mean.
Jose Garcia
(3,501 posts)
Wingus Dingus
(9,173 posts)don't follow me around for life. Life before the internet and social media had its up sides. This woman shouldn't have had to quit for things she said before her brain had fully developed.
