After Storm Over Tweets, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways

Re:After Storm Over Tweets, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:18AM (#16376318)

Wasn't that was a retweet (the good ole-fashioned retweet, starting with "RT")? It looks like it was a retweet from John Barlow, the founder of the EFF.

And it was definitely sarcastic, in nature. If you remove the loaded language, it's a bit easier to parse, I think: "If a black man was meant to talk to our schoolchildren, God would've made one President. Oh, wait, he did."

Ergo, a black man was, indeed, meant to talk to our schoolchildren.

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Re:After Storm Over Tweets, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways by meri_dian on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:24AM (#16376374)

That's exactly how I interpreted it as well. It is unwise to use slurs regardless of intent, because people are sensitive to them and rightly so. But her intent in using them was not to hurt or belittle.

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