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NYT Op-Ed Writer: Yeah, I Made A 'Trivial' Math Mistake on MSNBC. Also, You're Racist For Noticing.
Townhall.com ^ | March 12, 2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 03/13/2020 4:21:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Oh, suck it up cupcake, you screwed up! It isn’t racial. If you noticed folks came down hard on you, GOOD! You are a reporter and SHOULD have your facts straight BEFORE you open your mouth. You SHOULD apologize and be embarrassed over this. It is NOT TRIVIAL! Numbers matter. That is why you used them. You just used them wrong and instead of making somebody else look stupid, you made YOURSELF look stupid. What you tried to do to someone else, you did to yourself. Ha ha! Grow up.


41 posted on 03/13/2020 5:50:37 AM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: Kaslin

“Trivial” because it was a typical “news broadcast” interaction between two morons.

Only morons take things spouted there as truthful, useful, etc.


42 posted on 03/13/2020 5:51:24 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Kaslin

Simple arithmetic is simple logic. Someone who can’t handle it doesn’t belong on the editorial board of our nation’s (unfortunately) most influential newspaper.

Also note she has a polisci degree from the University of Michigan. As self-admittedly bad at math, you can pretty much guarantee that she didn’t have the SAT scores or academic aptitude to get in objectively.


43 posted on 03/13/2020 5:54:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin

You resent your agenda, dummy.


44 posted on 03/13/2020 5:57:41 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Kaslin

Just to be fair and balanced I hold Williams the white male equally in error for nodding along.


45 posted on 03/13/2020 5:58:43 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Kaslin

Obviously Williams is open to criticism but, being black, she is not.


46 posted on 03/13/2020 5:59:39 AM PDT by steve8714
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To: Kaslin

Liberal’s definition of “racist” anyone that I don’t like.


47 posted on 03/13/2020 6:00:22 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Kaslin

The AA AA writing an op ed is ignorant

(Affirmative Action African American)

She doesn’t lack math she lacks basic arithmetic. She is poorly educated


48 posted on 03/13/2020 6:00:34 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

I guess math isn’t the only subject that is beyond her grasp.


49 posted on 03/13/2020 6:04:14 AM PDT by windsorknot
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Mara Gay wrote an entireNYFT op-ed on how RACIST mathematics and twitter are.

My People Have Been Through Worse than a Twitter Mob

Mara Gay
NYFT
March 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/opinion/racism-twitter.html

Apparently Mara Gay spent the entire night not even aware of her 6-orders-of-magnitude error.

But (she screams in her op-ed) her breathtaking incompetence is not her fault! Mara Gay is black! Therefore, she deserves to be allowed to use the usual “racist card” pass!

Pathetic.


50 posted on 03/13/2020 6:05:20 AM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Kaslin

People make fun of black people all the time honey, especially their freakin friends. Moron!


51 posted on 03/13/2020 6:09:20 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: SkyPilot

Sigh...I wish my hair was that nice (2nd photo), but I could neither afford the $ nor the time to get it like that. (I’m a guy with “longer” hair.)

That being said, she’s not an unattractive woman. It’s a shame she needs those SJW crutches to hobble around on...a sure turnoff for me.


52 posted on 03/13/2020 6:13:32 AM PDT by moovova
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Dear Mara just to set the record straight since you love to give away Bloomy’s money. His campaign spending would give 500 people a million each. If you took his complete fortune estimated at 60 billion he could give a million to 60 thousand people which would be roughly a football stadium full or maybe a neighbourhood in Manhattan.


53 posted on 03/13/2020 6:19:19 AM PDT by xp38
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To: jeffc; GOPJ; Grampa Dave; poconopundit; Ann Archy; RitaOK; Jane Long; miss marmelstein
Leftists so-called "journalists" believe they can criticize anyone while they themselves should never be subjected to scrutiny.

The NY Times better get hustling.......this dummy sounds like they let loose another Janet Cooke on the populace.

REFERENCE: Janet Cooke was a Black journalist who worked for the Washington Post......and get this......
she won a Pulitzer Prize for a story that was completely fabricated. Cooke subsequently returned the Pulitzer, the only person to date to do so, after admitting she had fabricated stories.

Cooke was hired by lying through her teeth. Cooke falsely claimed she had a degree from Vassar College and a master's degree from the University of Toledo, and that she had received a journalism award while at the Toledo Blade. Cooke had attended Vassar for just a year, and had received only a bachelor's degree from Toledo.

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In a September 28, 1980, article in the Post, titled "Jimmy's World", Cooke wrote a profile of the life of an eight-year-old Black heroin addict. She described the "needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms."

The story engendered much empathy among readers, including Marion Barry, then mayor of Washington, D.C. He and other city officials organized an all-out police search for the boy, which was unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent.

54 posted on 03/13/2020 6:19:52 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: duckman

that’s very white of you


55 posted on 03/13/2020 6:20:48 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: steve8714

Angry Black Woman Syndrome alert!


56 posted on 03/13/2020 6:22:52 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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Excerpted from The NY Times: Mara Gay is a member of the NY Times editorial board, focusing on New York State and local affairs.

<><> Before coming to The Times in 2018, she was a City Hall reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering Mayors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, and dozens of other stories that have shaped the nation’s largest, most dynamic city.

<><> Ms. Gay has also worked for the New York Daily News, The Atlantic and The Daily, an all-digital newspaper owned by News Corp.

<><> She has a degree in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a New York City native and lives in Brooklyn.

57 posted on 03/13/2020 6:22:53 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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She acts like she was being criticized for failing to solve an integral calculus problem.

Any third-grader taught long division would know dividing $500 million by 327 million is NOT a million per person.


58 posted on 03/13/2020 6:32:56 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

It seems that hiring people based on color rather than their qualifications doesn’t stop them from whining about racism.


59 posted on 03/13/2020 6:41:09 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (It's no coincidence that the DemocRAT/media complex always sides with America's enemies.)
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To: xp38
"Some math is hard but this wasn’t."

I forgot the /s tag. ;)

60 posted on 03/13/2020 7:27:57 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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