RACISM IS ALIVE, WELL, AND TOLERATED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

If we really care about racism and believe that it is toxic, we have to stand against all forms of racism. It is hypocrisy to criticize racist remarks against Indians or Eskimos and allow them against Whites or Blacks. When we allow them against some, in effect, we are saying that racism is justified.

However, some forms of racism have become trendy and acceptable, even among those who are most vocal against racism, in general. For example, an outspoken racist, Sarah Jeong, has recently been hired as a member of The New York Times editorial board. Townhall reports that:

·       Jeong is a raging racist who has tweeted hundreds of times about her extreme hatred toward white people. In one tweet, she boasted that “it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” She also asked on Twitter whether white people are “genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.”

·       These samples are only a fraction of the four years of unrelenting hate messages that Jeong spread on social media. She clearly is consumed by her animosity toward white people. In another example, she promoted the hashtag #CancelWhitePeople and celebrated that “White people have stopped breeding,” and will “go extinct soon” because that was her “plan all along.”

To hire Jeong is to endorse racism, in whatever form. How then did The Times respond to the outcry against Jeong?

·       After these detestable tweets were exposed, The New York Times refused to fire Jeong and stood by their new editorial board member. In a statement released on Thursday, the newspaper claimed that Jeong was “the subject of frequent online harassment” because she is a “young Asian woman.” https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2018/08/04/racism-is-alive-and-well-at-the-new-york-times-n2506698?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad

According to The Times, Jeong’s racist diatribes were justified because she had been harassed on online. What does this justification imply?

1.    Anyone who has been harassed has the right to also harass.

2.    There are privileged people who are above the legal and social standards to which others must conform.

3.    Equality before the law no longer counts.

4.    Racism can be used to fight racism.

This can only breed further resentment, polarization, and the distrust of a system which is supposed to guarantee equal protection for all.

The inevitable result: DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS