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The New York Times’ newest editorial hire has a history of racist tweets against white people. NYT announced on Wednesday that they hired Sarah Jeong to join their editorial board. Jeong previously wrote for the Verge and authored “The Internet of Garbage,” a book about online harassment and free speech. Shortly after Jeong’s hire, Twitter users unearthed old tweets in which she expressed an extreme distaste for white people. “Dumbass f**king white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” she tweeted in 2016. Another tweet reads, “oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get from being cruel to old white men.”
“I engaged in what I thought of at the time as counter-trolling. While it was intended as satire, I deeply regret that I mimicked the language of my harassers"
originally posted by: Zarniwoop
“I engaged in what I thought of at the time as counter-trolling. While it was intended as satire, I deeply regret that I mimicked the language of my harassers"
If she can't pull off some simple satire on twitter, how is she qualified for an editorial position?