# New York Times hires unapologetic racist writer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086 "2018-08-04T10:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/501 "2018-08-10T23:02:57Z")
> [@](#): > > The belief in some post racial utopia is believing in a world where bias doesn’t exist. That is the standard that you are holding, where you refuse to address racial inequity until these marginalized populations quit being ‘uppity’, even if you have to dig into old tweets to disqualify them yet again from moving forward. Erm no, there’s positive bias and negative bias, Jeong demonstrated negative bias on numerous occasions, occasions where a white counterpart would of been immediately fired. I’m calling for an equality of punishment, I’m well aware of inequities within the system, this doesn’t let her off the hook, or anyone for that matter. > [@](#): > > I hate to break this to you but you will never get rid of implicit bias. Sure you may be able to adjust it when it comes to skin color. But you will still have other biases even if that is just people who drive mini vans or who wear purple shorts. Where have I implied in any of my posts that I think this would happen, from my recollection it’s _you_ making that assumption about me and others. > [@](#): > > If you can’t figure out why withholding work on the very real inequities we have today based on some requirement for everyone to be perfect is also feeding systemic racism I don’t know how I can get you to understand my point. Not asking for perfection, just asking for equality of punishment. She apologised and keeps her job, so if a white journalist working for NYT in the future does a similar thing, they should apologise and keep their job, if not, I’m calling bullshit on the double standards. > [@](#): > > When people are treated like shit they will occasional get mad, but the problem we have with racism is not people disliking each other it is the inequities that are based off this dislike. Just because there’s inequities doesn’t give her an excuse to make racist jokes, how many times have I reiterated this point for it to go over your head. By what you’re implying you’re saying Jeong got mad and racist but shouldn’t be fired because she experiences the everyday inequities of the system and can’t be held accountable for her own actions. > [@](#): > > Maybe humor will help get this concept across, this video will piss you off but try to keep an open mind. I watched the video and what we’re discussing isn’t the videos definition of white fragility, they mentioned hair touching, wrong ethnicity and the guy keeping silent when his white counterpart says there’s no racism, the latter of which I’ve never implied in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/502 "2018-08-10T23:03:18Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Wow. You think this? > > In what way we’re whites any less moral than the Japanese, Aztecs, etc. They had guns. A soldier with 3 months training could defeat a samurai or eagle warrior with lifetime of back breaking training with the pull of a trigger. > > If the ghengis Khan had guns, if attila had gunsif the aztecs or Indians had guns. Storyof history would be different Note the ‘?’ but it is more likely than some bullshit idea of racial superiority. Great job on ignoring the fact that the fluid concept of ‘white’ didn’t even exist when those countries rose. But I can get how you like regurgitating the bullshit from “Hitlers Bible” but maybe you should put down your copy of _‘The Passing of the Great Race’_ and other eugenicist literature. The rise of Europe as a world power had nothing to do with their hypersensitivity to topics around race. But to answer your question, had the indigenous people of the Americas possessed the proper immunity to disease the results would have been different. The fact that you believe that some special trait of ‘whites’ allowed that conquest to happen just demonstrates how ignorant you are. ‘Race’ is not a biologically meaningful term. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/503 "2018-08-10T23:09:03Z")
> [@Ryan\_Liam](#): > > Erm no, there’s positive bias and negative bias, Jeong demonstrated negative bias on numerous occasions, occasions where a white counterpart would of been immediately fired. I’m calling for an equality of punishment, I’m well aware of inequities within the system, this doesn’t let her off the hook, or anyone for that matter. > > Where have I implied in any of my posts that I think this would happen, from my recollection it’s _you_ making that assumption about me and others. > > Not asking for perfection, just asking for equality of punishment. She apologised and keeps her job, so if a white journalist working for NYT in the future does a similar thing, they should apologise and keep their job, if not, I’m calling bullshit on the double standards. > > Just because there’s inequities doesn’t give her an excuse to make racist jokes, how many times have I reiterated this point for it to go over your head. > > By what you’re implying you’re saying Jeong got mad and racist but shouldn’t be fired because she experiences the everyday inequities of the system and can’t be held accountable for her own actions. > > I watched the video and what we’re discussing isn’t the videos definition of white fragility, they mentioned hair touching, wrong ethnicity and the guy keeping silent when his white counterpart says there’s no racism, the latter of which I’ve never implied in this thread. No I am saying that there is a different standard, despite your choice to label it as racism and not prejudice. If we can’t agree to use two different terms there you will just keep coming back with strawmen. Feel free to suggest any terms you wish and I’ll engage, the two concepts we need to deliniate between are: dislike for someone AND dislike for someone with power Provide some terms you would accept so that we quit talking past each other and I will re-engage but I am going to give up as I tried to do so and was ignored. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/504 "2018-08-10T23:20:35Z")
Ryan, you keep saying “she’d of” and “he’d of”. Please: it’s “have”, not “of”, as the apostrophe-d replaces “would”. > [@rat\_avatar](#): > > Well at least you admit that wypipo need to be comforted, coddled, reassured, and esteemed. Not sure why you have a problem with being called ‘fragile’ which is basically the same thing. That segment of white voters (which does not include me) requires some coddling, yes. And we had better get to coddling them if we want to retake power! > [@Delicious](#): > > Pish and twoddle, i already married a black lass and diluted the white race by mixing genes, what have you done? I know you were mainly being cheeky and this is a bit of a tangent/nitpick…but isn’t it more like you “diluted” the black race? Seems to me like “diluting” the white race would require a nonwhite man to procreate with a white woman. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/505 "2018-08-10T23:33:59Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > That segment of white voters (which does not include me) requires some coddling, yes. And we had better get to coddling them if we want to retake power! Why not try to address the myth based ‘racial anxiety’ that they experienced vs pandering to white nationalist terrorists. I can’t accept throwing fellow Americans under the bus yet again just because we lost one election. Hell half that loss was due to poor candidate choice too. The Republican party is where it is because of the southern strategy and a desire to court bigots, there is no reason to hand the other party to them too. If the country can forget that ‘Catholics’ were the _terrifying immigrant hordes_ we can address the current islamophobia and anti-Hispanic hate with the truth and not by resorting to complacency. To be honest the white nationalists will most likely try to bring on their downfall of the US before Trump is out of office anyway and those actions are far more likely to swing the voters back anyway. That is going to be horrific, but unless we get lucky and the white nationalists chicken out like they did in the past the current administration won’t do anything about it. I do hope for no violence tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/506 "2018-08-10T23:38:29Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > No I am saying that there is a different standard, despite your choice to label it as racism and not prejudice. If we can’t agree to use two different terms there you will just keep coming back with strawmen. > > Feel free to suggest any terms you wish and I’ll engage, the two concepts we need to deliniate between are: > > dislike for someone > > AND > > dislike for someone with power > > Provide some terms you would accept so that we quit talking past each other and I will re-engage but I am going to give up as I tried to do so and was ignored. So by you own deinifition, she is someone in a position of authority, being a journalist who can shape public opinion, and who used that power to disparage a whole group of people for jokes. This is why I am increasingly regarding you as someone who looks at people through an ideological lens. And again, I’m going to stress this because you keep ignoring it, prejudice can be racist, they are no mutually exclusive, and I have provided the example twice in this thread to you and you have ignored it. So again, I provide this quote, read it. > [@](#): > > **itstopswithme.humanrights.gov.au/about-racism** > > **Racism takes many forms and can happen in many places**. **It includes prejudice,** discrimination or hatred directed at someone because of their colour, ethnicity or national origin. > People often associate racism with acts of abuse or harassment.\*\* However, it doesn’t need to involve violent or intimidating behaviour. Take racial name-calling and jokes.\*\* Or consider situations when people may be excluded from groups or activities because of where they come from. And just for some extra context; > [@](#): > > [Prejudice plus power - RationalWiki](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power#Undermining_anti-racism) > [Prejudice+Power] has legitimized overt race- and gender-based hate speech; if it’s okay to say hateful things about white men, the claim that it’s not okay to say them about other groups becomes tenuous. It has lent credibility to claims that whites, especially straight white men, are under attack. It has subverted the moral authority of anti-racism—and of liberalism (in the classic sense), dismissed in current progressive discourse as “a philosophy of white male domination.” And it has so trivialized the concepts of bigotry and racism that they have lost much of their stigma. When wearing a sombrero for Halloween can get you labeled a racist, the label becomes meaningless. > [@](#): > > **SlackerInc** > Ryan, you keep saying “she’d of” and “he’d of”. Please: it’s “have”, not “of”, as the apostrophe-d replaces “would”. Apologies, I’ll try and fix that. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/507 "2018-08-10T23:40:07Z")
So it’s “pandering to white nationalist terrorists” if we abstain from dragging people solely for traits they were born with and cannot change, and urge others to do the same? :dubious: ETA: Thanks, Ryan. I love the cite from rationalwiki BTW! ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/508 "2018-08-10T23:41:35Z")
Ryan\_Liam: ignore any past words used, your personal definitions and mine. Provide me two words, even if you make them up that describe those two concepts. Unless I have terms that you will accept I can’t explain my position to you and it is highly unlikely that you will randomly happen on my beliefs by creating random scenarios of what my beliefs may be by chance. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/509 "2018-08-11T00:09:47Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > So it’s “pandering to white nationalist terrorists” if we abstain from dragging people solely for traits they were born with and cannot change, and urge others to do the same? :dubious: > > ETA: Thanks, Ryan. I love the cite from rationalwiki BTW! No one is doing that, anti-white racism isn’t a thing unless you cherry pick definitions based on the broadest definition possible. That said anti-white prejudice, yes. You are cherry picking an inexact term so that you feel justified in your fake outrage and your agenda does not include standing up for the oppressed. The fact that you have repeated ignored the fact that there may be a difference yet continue to try to force this discussion in this direction shows your posts are in bad faith. Using the word prejudice does not diminish those offences, but ignoring a more precise term even used by the UN so that it fits your argument is just classical confirmation bias. Here is the UN definition. > [@](#): > > “racial discrimination” shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. Resorting to loose lay descriptive definitions in a dictionary does nothing to change the concepts, it just lets you ignore the points being made. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/510 "2018-08-11T00:16:20Z")
On the rationalwiki part > **[Internet law](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Internet_law#Layne.27s_law)** > > The Internet has led to the development of a burgeoning field of legislation wherein amateur lawmakers seek, in the manner of Murphy's Law, to glibly describe certain aspects or observations regarding internet behaviour in general and, more... > [@](#): > > On the other hand, I frequently find it an effective tactic, when someone wants to argue over words rather than ideas, simply to accept their definitions and then explain my ideas in terms of their words. This short-circuits their defense mechanism, forcing them to argue on my terms (but not necessarily with my word I am offering to accept your definition if you offer me with a word you will accept that describes the concept I mentioned. Otherwise I will assume you lost the debate and are now resorting to games. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/511 "2018-08-11T00:19:54Z")
> **[Definition of RACISM](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism)** > > a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race; also : behavior or attitudes that reflect and foster this belief : racial discrimination... > [@](#): > > Dictionaries are often treated as the final arbiter in arguments over a word’s meaning, but they are not always well suited for settling disputes. The lexicographer’s role is to explain how words are (or have been) actually used, not how some may feel that they should be used, and they say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named by a word, much less the significance it may have for individuals. **When discussing concepts like racism, therefore, it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.** ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/512 "2018-08-11T03:13:00Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > On the rationalwiki part > > [Internet law - RationalWiki](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Internet_law#Layne.27s_law) > > I am offering to accept your definition if you offer me with a word you will accept that describes the concept I mentioned. > > Otherwise I will assume you lost the debate and are now resorting to games. Here is an example, with the quote taken from a tweet Sarah Jeong has actually made; **Racial** **Prejudice** = _‘basically Im just imagining being white and waking up every morning with a terrible existential dread about how I have no culture’_ bias notion against whites implying they have no culture which is also a racist stereotype. Disclaimer: I’m aware this is a joke, it’s just that it’s a racist joke. Do I have to make it any clearer how prejudice can be mixed with racism to make it a racially prejudice joke/s? Jesus fucking Christ. As for your whining about dictionary definitions, in your own fucking link; > **[Definition of RACISM](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism)** > > a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race; also : behavior or attitudes that reflect and foster this belief : racial discrimination... > [@](#): > > **Definition of racism** > 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race > 2 a : a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles > b : a political or social system founded on racism > \*\*3 : racial prejudice or discrimination > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/513 "2018-08-11T04:33:04Z")
She said stuff that required an apology, regardless of the context. She apologized. That’s enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/514 "2018-08-11T05:49:17Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > No one is doing that, anti-white racism isn’t a thing unless you cherry pick definitions based on the broadest definition possible. That said anti-white prejudice, yes. You are cherry picking an inexact term so that you feel justified in your fake outrage and your agenda does not include standing up for the oppressed. > > The fact that you have repeated ignored the fact that there may be a difference yet continue to try to force this discussion in this direction shows your posts are in bad faith. Using the word prejudice does not diminish those offences, but ignoring a more precise term even used by the UN so that it fits your argument is just classical confirmation bias. > > Here is the UN definition. > > Resorting to loose lay descriptive definitions in a dictionary does nothing to change the concepts, it just lets you ignore the points being made. Da fuq? 😕 You quoted my post, in which I did not use any of the terms you talked about, and then replied with this screed. Did you intend to reply to a different post? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/515 "2018-08-11T06:03:01Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > …I do hope for no violence tomorrow. That might have been possible, but latest news is that Antifas and MS-13 have completed their negotiations on alliance. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/516 "2018-08-11T06:50:30Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > That might have been possible, but latest news is that Antifas and MS-13 have completed their negotiations on alliance. Ah that ‘Lisa Jennifer’ bullshit where: > [@](#): > > Tomorrow starts the New World Order, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and MS-13 begin systematically murdering every white person in America!!! Check out the leaked Facebook chat messages, you are being baited by the people running the rally on. > [@](#): > > Jason Kessler > We can put out a bunch of these boomer bait memes around the time of the rally Good US video from 1947 about this type of BS. > **[National Archives NextGen Catalog](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376)** > > The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/517 "2018-08-11T06:52:39Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Da fuq? 😕 You quoted my post, in which I did not use any of the terms you talked about, and then replied with this screed. Did you intend to reply to a different post? Nope, just refusing to play your dishonest word games. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/518 "2018-08-11T08:28:32Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > No one is doing that, anti-white racism isn’t a thing unless you cherry pick definitions based on the broadest definition possible. That said anti-white prejudice, yes. You are cherry picking an inexact term so that you feel justified in your fake outrage and your agenda does not include standing up for the oppressed. > > The fact that you have repeated ignored the fact that there may be a difference yet continue to try to force this discussion in this direction shows your posts are in bad faith. Using the word prejudice does not diminish those offences, but ignoring a more precise term even used by the UN so that it fits your argument is just classical confirmation bias. > > Here is the UN definition. > > Resorting to loose lay descriptive definitions in a dictionary does nothing to change the concepts, it just lets you ignore the points being made. So there exists the possibility of prejudice against people who are white based on their “race” but this isn’t racism? In my lexicon prejudice based on race is racism. I get that you are saying that without a negative power imbalance that prejudice based on race is not racism but I am still not understanding why. Maybe you need another word for prejudice + power imbalance? Is that possible? I can’t see why prejudice based on race is not racism? I also understand that race is a loaded term that I may not be using correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/519 "2018-08-11T11:50:18Z")
> [@Quint](#): > > So there exists the possibility of prejudice against people who are white based on their “race” but this isn’t racism? In my lexicon prejudice based on race is racism. I get that you are saying that without a negative power imbalance that prejudice based on race is not racism but I am still not understanding why. Maybe you need another word for prejudice + power imbalance? Is that possible? I can’t see why prejudice based on race is not racism? I also understand that race is a loaded term that I may not be using correctly. Your definition is how I use the word because that’s how the vast majority of people use it. Of course institutions themselves can be racist but that doesn’t make every member of the undisadvantaged class racist themselves. Except in the sense of having small residual prejudices that everyone has, but to say that that makes everybody racist, full stop, no modifier, renders the word meaningless as surely as attempting to hijack the meaning for something else does. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/520 "2018-08-11T11:54:15Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > Why not try to address the myth based ‘racial anxiety’ that they experienced vs pandering to white nationalist terrorists. Do you believe that white swing voters who are turned off by anti-white rhetoric are “white nationalist terrorists”? I’m going to be generous here and assume that you don’t actually believe that, and are being hyperbolic. The alternative is that you are a complete moron. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086.md?page=27)