Smear Jobs Are Not About Standards

The staff at Teen Vogue seems pretty damn anti-Black to me, based on recent news. I detected a strong whiff when they got the new Black woman editor-in-chief to resign over prejudiced tweets she made about Asian people 10 years ago, when she was a teenager. She had acknowledged and apologized for these tweets several years before being hired at Teen Vogue, and again when she was hired. 

Now, lo and behold, reports have come out that one of the non-Black staffers who led the call for her removal (the Asian and Caucasian senior social media manager, natch) tweeted the "n" word multiple times a few years before the editor-in-chief published her own tweets.

Perspective: If someone non-Black is throwing that word around in public with other non-Black people, what do you think they're saying in private?

Keep in mind this individual knew exactly what a hypocrite she was being in leading a campaign to oust the Black editor-in-chief. And since she doesn’t hold herself to the standards she’s enforcing, we know it’s not about standards and here comes whiff after whiff again.

So, now, her and the Teen Vogue staff's story is shifting to how this Black woman reporter didn't have the right experience or qualifications and shouldn't have been hired in the first place. And the staffers now say they could only get management to care about tweets, but their move to push her out wasn't really about tweets, even though her 3 tweets from 10 years ago are exactly what they made it about as they smeared her far and wide.

And these are the people who call themselves liberal? 

When is the senior social media manager being fired?