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In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board and to be its lead writer on technology, commencing in September.[17] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media and social media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[18][19] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong said that the posts were "counter-trolling" in reaction to harassment she had experienced, and that she regretted adopting that tactic.[18] The Times said that it had reviewed her social media posts before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts.[18][19]

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
I checked her wikipedia page just now and found this:

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In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board and to be its lead writer on technology, commencing in September.[17] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media and social media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[18][19] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong said that the posts were "counter-trolling" in reaction to harassment she had experienced, and that she regretted adopting that tactic.[18] The Times said that it had reviewed her social media posts before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts.[18][19]

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Originally posted by synthplayer:
It has become a widely known and widely accepted trope that Conservatives think Liberals are stupid, while Liberals think Conservatives are mean.

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Originally posted by synthplayer:
It has become a widely known and widely accepted trope that Conservatives think Liberals are stupid, while Liberals think Conservatives are mean.

How can I keep from thinking that Liberals are stupid, when they can't even see the double standard they live their lives by? How do I learn that twitter - an organization that is run by low-IQ children who were indoctrinated to believe in absolutely illogical bull shit in the schools they attended - gave Jeong a pass when she tweeted her outrageously unacceptable racist beliefs about White people, but then punished Candace Owens when she tweeted the very same things, but changed the focus of the hatred from White to other races, and not see them as being "not too bright?"

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

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Originally posted by synthplayer:
It has become a widely known and widely accepted trope that Conservatives think Liberals are stupid, while Liberals think Conservatives are mean.

Between mean and stupid, I'll take mean everyday and twice on sundays.

Besides, if it weren't for assholes, nothing important would ever get done!

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
It was fun seeing the mental gymnastics that racism requires bias AND power.

So I guess anyone poor cant be racist, since they have no power.
Even Don Lemon was like WTF!?!?, and couldnt agree especially when he agreed the white guy saying the same things about another race would be fired from CNN.

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Originally posted by sdy:
One more example of how far our society has degraded.

There was a time when expressing opinions like hers would have been a show stopper at any major news media.

Now we have been anesthetized to the point where this is tolerable to enough people to let it stand.

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Our current crop of angry leftist 'journalist' have destroyed the integrity of all our formerly great news publications. This country doesn't really have a functioning 'news' media at this point.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Poor and in the minority so the myth goes. It is a myth indeed. It exculpates certain bigots and racists by modifying the definition giving a fig leaf to the victim class. Make no mistake, one can be racist and bigoted even if powerless. Racism is an attitude.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Even Don Lemon was like WTF!?!?, and couldnt agree especially when he agreed the white guy saying the same things about another race would be fired from CNN.