Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

< Back to Page

Trigger warning: RW source

March 9, 2021

African American editor attacked by Asian American editor for tweets written when she was a minor

Brazen display of privilege, we have to dismantle racist school admission systems favoring Asians

When the journalist Alexi McCammond was 17 years old, she wrote some tweets in the voice of an annoyed American adolescent — which is what she was. Little could she have known that almost a decade later, her skyrocketing journalism career would be suddenly imperiled because she used the word "Asian" in a slighting way in three of those tweets.

After McCammond was hired to edit Teen Vogue last month, an outraged Asian editor at another publication highlighted these tweets in a finger-wagging Instagram post — tweets for which, it should be noted, McCammond actually apologized two years ago when someone else surfaced them.

It seems, however, that she didn't apologize in the right way for her critic, Diana Tsui. The problem was that McCammond called the tweets "deeply insensitive" rather than "racist". Tsui then raged at the very thought that the conglomerate Conde Nast would even think of hiring McCammond: "I'm tired of big media organizations pretending to give a damn about diversity and inclusion", she wrote.

Newer News
Iraq: Pope's Trip Leaves Collateral Damage

Older News
President Biden visits a hardware store in DC

Privacy