The first one is just the "model minority" trope, the second one is a reference to the actual physical characteristic that Americans use to define "Asian" (since we tend to leave South Asians out, and everybody in the West tends to leave Central Asians out), and the third is a case of over-specification that maybe indicates hidden racist attitudes, but could also be a way to distinguish between a number of TAs whose names you don't know.
I don't care about Teen Vogue, and I don't care which elites get jobs in the culture industry dictating the range of acceptable opinion, but tweets like these are minor racial crimes as compared to the systemic actions of people who would never talk like this.
Children do horrible, cruel things all the time. It's part of growing up and learning boundaries.
The difference between age 16 and age 27 isn't a decade, it's 45 years, give or take.
I feel conflicted. On one hand, kids do dumb things. On the other hand... those tweets were pretty terrible, and may hint at some deep seated prejudice. And this isn't a 50yo, those tweets were only a decade ago.
Ultimately I fail to be outraged either by her hiring or her firing. They could have kept her and I'd shrug; they fire her and I also shrug. The whole situation is sad. It's hard to imagine my child saying things like that, but who knows, maybe her parents said the same thing.
For reference, here are the tweets referenced in the story:
Outdone by Asian #whatsnew
now googling how not to wake up with swollen, asian eyes...
give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don't explain what I did wrong..thanks a lot stupid asian T.A. you're great