Alec MacGillis Profile picture
@ProPublica. Author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC.

Oct 2, 2020, 6 tweets

Whoa:

Ford Foundation chief defended postponing an art show bc proceeding w/ it "would have appeared tone deaf to what is happening in public discourse about art."

~100 artists objected.

He then apologized. Not for the defense, but for using "tone-deaf," which was "ableist."

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