Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets

Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by BitwiseFool on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:42PM (#26506706)

I don't think it's possible for this to only be a minor setback. I predict her career in journalism is over. Her name is now associated with having made racist tweets and from having to resign from Teen Vogue. Identity matters a lot in professional journalism and I don't see how any media outlet would want to take her up as a writer knowing that they'd have to deal with the bad publicity that would arise. Why not just hire someone else with no baggage?

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Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by jfengel on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:55PM (#26506853)

Could be. Could also be that they see her take responsibility and move forward with it. It would likely be in a less visible role, but it will give her the opportunity to make genuine amends.

For a lot of people they really want this story to be "ha ha the left turns on itself". And the left sure does. They're damned good at it. People love to punish, and when the real offenders are largely immune to punishment, they'll take it out extra hard on those they can get their hands on.

But there are ways for it to end. She's putting herself up prominently and demonstrating what a genuine apology looks like. She's not hedging, excusing, or turning it around. She's accepting that an apology is more than just saying that you're sorry. Which means that people get a chance to accept the apology.

Something we don't get a lot of practice in. So maybe we'll fail at it. That wouldn't be surprising. But it has to start somewhere, and maybe it'll start with her.

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Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by BitwiseFool on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:00PM (#26506927)

Part of the reason why I think her career is over is because even after a gold-standard apology, she was still made to resign. She did the exact right thing to do and by all means should have been given a second chance and shown some forgiveness.

Edit: A gold standard apology is 1) admitting the transgression, 2) understanding the harm it caused, 3) delivering an apology to those affected, 4) pledging to make amends, 5) changing behavior going-forward

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