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Saved tweets from Sarah Jeong, the newest member of the New York Times editorial board. (source: Twitter)
Tyler O'Neil, PJ Media: New York Times Editorial Board Hires 'Angry Racist' Who Gets 'Sick' Pleasure Out of Racial Cruelty
On Wednesday, the New York Times hired Sarah Jeong to join their editorial board. Shortly thereafter, Jeong's old racist tweets emerged.
The tweets aren't exactly ancient history. In 2014 and 2015, Jeong — senior writer at the Verge — unleashed a few Twitter tirades against people with a lighter complexion. She seems to have deleted them now, but screenshots showing the tweets (and her new Twitter bio as "soon to be editorial board @nytimes") have surfaced on the Internet.
"Dumba** f**king white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs p**sing on fire hydrants," Jeong tweeted in November 2014. Ouch! Not only a profanity-laced tirade, but a tirade comparing people to dogs because of the color of their skin!
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Update #1: Sarah Jeong's racist tweets spotlighted after New York Times hiring: 'White men are bulls--' (Washington Times)
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WNU Editor: These tweets are appalling, and her claims that this was done out of satire does not convince me. The fact that the New York Times is defending her is a disappointment. I started reading the New York Times in the 1980s .... when it was the paper of record and required reading by all those who were interested in American news. Today .... it is just a shell of the great paper that it once was.
