Well, well, well. Just days ago we here at TheJeffreyLord.com had this headline:
Teen Vogue Cancel Culture Targets Black Female Editor – Who Resigns
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that cancel culture sauce for the goose will at some point become cancel culture sauce for the gander.
In taking issue for the cancel culture zeroing in on resigned-editor Alexi McCammond I wrote this:
“ Wow. Alexi McCammond, the 27-year old black woman newly appointed as the editor of Teen Vogue is abruptly out before she even got started. Why?
Because when she was a teenager she wrote a couple of tweets described this way in Variety:
‘According to social media posts, McCammond’s old tweets — which dated back to 2011 — included ‘Now googling how to not wake up with swollen, asian eyes’ and‘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.’
Again, McCammond was a 17-year-old kid when this was written. There is no indication, none, that she has not now grown up and is a functioning adult who knows better.”
I also wrote this:
“Perhaps it is time for each of those 20 staff members to be investigated for any comments or tweets they made while a teenager? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that cancel culture sauce for the goose will at some point become cancel culture sauce for the gander.
Not good. Not good at all.”
Hmmm. And now, with all the certainty of the sun coming up, here comes this new headline over there in The Washington Examiner:
Senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported editor-in-chief’s ousting over controversial tweets used N-word on social media
This jewel of a story profiling utter hypocrisy:
A senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported the ousting of newly-named Editor-in-Chief Alexi McCammond over past controversial tweets concerning Asian Americans used the N-word on social media more than a decade ago.
“I love the contradictory nature of the phrase ‘white n—-,’” Christine Davitt, senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, wrote in one tweet from 2009.
Davitt, who is reportedly of Irish and Filipino descent, also used the N-word in several other tweets. The tweets appear to have been deleted as of Sunday morning.
Davitt’s resurfaced tweets come days after she posted a letter to Instagram expressing concern over McCammond’s hiring at Teen Vogue “in light of her past racist and homophobic tweets.”
‘So proud of my @teenvogue colleagues. The work continues…’ Davitt wrote in a caption.“
So. I get it.
If you’re the black Alexi McCammond and tweet something offensive (when you were a teenager) according to Teen Vogue’s half-white Christine Davitt, then…you’re out. And not only out but Davitt is “so proud” of her “@teenvogue colleagues” for pushing McCammond out.
But when it comes to light that the half-white Davitt herself has old tweets out there using the N-word? And nothing happens to her? No job loss, much less no internal push from her colleagues in a public message to get her out.
Hey, no problem. Nothing to see here, just move along. The so serious concern at Teen Vogue about “past racist” tweets if, well, you’re half-white and the right person with the right insider connections.
In other words? Cancel culture for thee, but not for me.
Pathetic, hypocritical…and dangerous.
