Posted on 04/27/2018 10:10:44 AM PDT by blam
The far-left Daily Beast says it has “hit pause” on Joy Reid’s columns until its own reporters have had a chance to investigate her claim that homophobic writings attributed to her were actually written by a hacker. In other fallout news, the embattled MSNBC anchor canceled a public appearance, a high-profile panel discussion she was set to appear on in New York.
On top of that, a gay rights group abruptly canceled an award Reid was scheduled to receive next month.
“We’re going to hit pause on Reid’s columns,” wrote Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman in an internal email. “As you’re well aware, support for LGBTQ rights and respect for human dignity are core to Daily Beast. So we’re taking seriously the new allegations that one of our columnists, Joy Reid, previously wrote homophobic blog posts during her stint as a radio host.”
Shachtman added, “We’ve all said and done things in our lives that we wish we hadn’t done. We deserve the room to grow beyond our past. But these allegations are serious enough that they deserve a full examination.”
Hopefully, Schachtman is not talking about 12-year-old writings being a disqualifier. It would be outrageous to fire or suspend someone over something they wrote at a completely different site more than a decade ago. The only thing that should matter to the Daily Beast is if Reid follows its own editorial policies and guidelines.
Reid’s problem, however, is not what was published at her site in 2006. Reid’s problem is if she is lying in 2018, and by all accounts her story of being hacked is springing leaks right and left.
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The horror of identity politics is that being a minority is considered, by definition, being “oppressed”. Their morality thus says in the name of equity and fairness, the minority needs extra protections or privileges to be fair.
The simplest way to determine who wins the Oppression Olympics is what group is the smallest minority. It is also a factor in the “intersectionality” - the group women is too big, so divide it up into even smaller groups to try to move up the victitmhood hierarchy.
I witnessed this when a black female coworker was arguing with a mentally ill man in a dress, and his “winning” point was: there are more people like you than like me.
That was considered reason enough and justification for all of its demands.
The irony is that liberals ignore the fact that the smallest minority is the individual, so the end result of intersectionality is individual rights.
What is the current pecking order?
It used to be:
1)blacks
Then it became
1)blacks
2)homosexuals
then
1) homosexuals
2)blacks
NOW i think it is:
1)illegal aliens
2)homosexuals
3)blacks
That’s not gonna sell well when they come around again for black votes every 4 years.
That Obama was not in favor of same sex marriage until after the 2012 election should be brought up.
That holding traditional views a decade ago was OK or the only acceptable view.
Liberals don’t realize how dangerous it is to punish people for not holding radical far left views both now and forever, because it means pretty much everyone on their side but the heads of the lynch mob are in danger of said liberal lynch mob.
MSNBC has a problem filling its Saturday slot.
The Melissa Harris-Perry slot.
That’s because the black vote is slowly ebbing away from the Dems...
Trump effect
If she were hacked then, why didn’t she address it then? Or did she agree with the ‘hackers’.......ridiculous cover story!
Thanks, bb....I’ll make a note of that.
She might have to appear around town w/ a "girlfriend " saying how much she enjoys gay sex to get back in their good graces.
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