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. Indeed, Jonathan Swan, her colleague at Axios, said this of her on Fox News:
“‘I was just really sad to see this happen,’ Swan said on “America’s Newsroom.” ‘I worked with her for four years. She doesn’t have a racist bone in her body. If we can’t as an industry accept somebody’s sincere and repeated apologies for something they tweeted when they were 17 years old, what are we doing?’”
Exactly.
This is, of course, the cancel culture at work in Teen Vogue, with an added nose of race. This was the statement on Twitter by the 20 apparently anonymous Teen Vogue staffers:
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.
“As more than 20 members of the staff of Teen Vogue, we’ve built our outlet’s reputation as a voice of justice and change – we take immense pride in our work and in creating an inclusive environment. That’s why we have written a letter to management at Condé Nast about the recent hire of Alexi McCammond as our new editor-in-chief in light of her past racist and homophobic tweets. We’ve heard the concerns of our readers, and we stand with you. In a moment of historically high anti-Asian violence and amid the ongoing struggles of the LGBTQ community, we as the staff of Teen Vogue fully reject those sentiments. We are hopeful that an internal conversation will prove fruitful in maintaining the integrity granted to us by our audience.
A trip to the Teen Vogue website and the very first thing one sees is that the site is not only not “inclusive”, but in the age-old style of the American Left, everyone is to be divided by race.
In fact, this is merely the Teen Vogue version of what Justice Clarence Thomas long ago called the “high tech lynching for uppity blacks” who somewhere along the line have a different opinion than the Left. Not to mention does it reek of exactly what Dr. Ben Carson, an African-American, once said of white liberals years ago in an interview with Mark Levin. Asked Mark of Dr. Carson:
“And you’re attacked in many respects because of your race. You’re not supposed to think like this, and supposed to talk like this. A lot of white liberals just don’t like it, do they?”
To which Dr. Carson responded this way:
“Well, they’re the most racist people there are. You know, they put you in a little category, a little box — you have to think this way. How could you dare come off the plantation?”
In other words? Ten years ago, when Alexi McCammond was a 17-year old girl, she wasn’t on the plantation. The 20 staffers of Teen Vogue found out – none of whom had the guts to sign their names to that much-publicized statement – and the racial supremacist wokes who staff the decidedly non-inclusive Teen Vogue swung into action, bringing out what the old Soviet Union Bolshevik secret police called the “iron fist of the dictatorship of the proletariat” that was needed to smite any perceived Bolshevik foe.
That foe – this time aided and abetted by the fascism of cancel culture – turned out to be the 27-year-old, very accomplished Alexi McCammond.
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.
