1/ An alarming number of people are losing their jobs at the moment – or being suspended from them, pending investigations – because they've criticised some aspect of the Black Lives Matter movement.
2/ Grant Napear was fired by his radio station and resigned as the Sacramento Kings TV play-by-play announcer last week after he was mobbed for tweeting "All Lives Matter" nypost.com/2020/06/02/nba…
3/ Gordon Klein, a professor at UCLA, has been placed on leave after he refused to cancel a final exam following George Floyd's death washingtonexaminer.com/news/ucla-stud…
4/ Stu Peters, a Manx Radio presenter, has been suspended after he challenged the concept of "white privilege" in a debate with a caller to his radio show bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
5/ Martin Shipton, chief reporter of the Western Mail, has been forced to step down as a Wales Book of the Year Judge after he complained that the Black Lives Matter protest in Cardiff broke the Welsh Government's social distancing rules bbc.co.uk/news/uk-529402…
6/ You may disagree profoundly with what these men have said. But you should defend their right to say it without losing their careers. As George Orwell said, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear."
8/ The Op Ed Editor of the @nytimes has "resigned" after being heavily criticised by left-wing coworkers for publishing an opinion piece by a Republic Senator calling for the US Army to be used as "back up" in American cities to maintain law and order foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/new-…
9/ Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has been forced to resign because a headline on an article in the paper about building destroyed in the riots read “Buildings Matter, Too.” inquirer.com/news/stan-wisc…
10/ Hundreds of poets are calling for the President of the US Poetry Foundation to be fired because its statement last week saying it "stands in solidarity with the Black community, and denounces injustice and systemic racism" didn't go far enough. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
11/ Students at Cornell are demanding that chemistry professor David Collum be fired for tweeting that an incident in Buffalo, NY, in which a BLM protestor was pushed over by a police officer and hurt his head was not an example of police brutality.
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12/ UCLA has launched an inquiry after students complained about a white politics lecture – a US Air Force veteran – reading aloud Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail" which includes the n-word. The lecture was about the history of racism.
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13/ The editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, Adam Rapoport, has stood down after a piece he wrote genuflecting to BLM was judged to be insufficiently pious by his staff (and he wore an inappropriate Halloween costume 13 years ago).
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14/ The BBC has removed Little Britain from BBC iPlayer because of sketches involving the wearing of blackface. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
15/ Christene Barberich, editor and a co-founder of Refinery29, has stepped down after a number of former Refinery29 employees came forward on social media in to describe discrimination they experienced while working at the company. nytimes.com/2020/06/08/bus…
16/ Dee Nguyen fired from MTV's The Challenge after posting "People die every f***ing day" in response to Black Lives Matter protest. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
17/ Claudia Eller, Editor-in-Chief of Variety, has been forced to take "administrative leave" after snapping back when a person of colour criticised her self-flagellating article about the lack of diversity at Variety for being insufficiently pious deadline.com/2020/06/variet…
18/ LA Galaxy player Aleksandar Katai has been "released" by the club following critical posts made by his wife Tea Katai about BLM protestors on Instagram. dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsne…
19/ Leading economists, including Paul Krugman, are calling for Harald Uhlig, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, to be fired as editor of the Journal of Political Economy because he criticised the BLM movement. foxnews.com/politics/paul-…
20/ Stockwell Day, a former Canadian cabinet minister, has lost three jobs following a television appearance last week in which he said he didn't think Canada was a racist country, most Canadians are not racist and the system is not systemically racist. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
21/ BLM activists are demanding that Paw Patrol, the popular children’s cartoon on the Nick Jr. channel, should be cancelled because it shows a positive view of police. This, in spite of the show muting its content on June 7th to show solidarity with BLM. breitbart.com/entertainment/…
22/ Nigel Farage has left his LBC radio show "with immediate effect" after "talks with bosses" 48 hours after he compared BLM protestors to the Taliban. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
23/ David Shore, a 28-year-old data scientist, has been fired for tweeting an article by a biracial Princeton African-American studies scholar suggesting that rioting is politically counterproductive. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
24/ WarnerMedia has removed Gone With the Wind from its HBO Max streaming service because of its inappropriate depictions of some black characters. latimes.com/entertainment-…
25/ Disney, T-Mobile, Papa John's, SmileDirectClub and Vari have pulled their ads from Tucker Carlson Tonight because of the Fox host's criticisms of the Black Lives Matter movement orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives…
26/ Two long-running American reality shows about the police have literally been cancelled – Cops on the Paramount Network and Live PD on A&E. edition.cnn.com/2020/06/11/ent…
27/ UKTV, which is owned by BBC Studios, has just deleted 'The Germans' from its streaming service, a Fawlty Towers episode in which a character called "the Major" is chastised for using the N-word. comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5804/f…
28/ Jessica Mulroney, has been fired from Canadian reality show I Do, Redo and Meghan Markle's best friend, after getting into an argument about BLM with a black influencer on Instagram. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
29/ Condé Nast vice president Matt Duckor has left the company after being accused of failing to include non-white talent in Bon Appétit's video content and making inappropriate jokes on Twitter. businessinsider.com/conde-nast-mat…
30/ Lego has suspended advertising building sets and products including police stations, city police vests and the White House in solidarity with the BLM movement. cnbc.com/2020/06/04/geo…
31/ CBC News host Wendy Mesley has been suspended from hosting The Weekly, pending an investigation, after using an inappropriate word in an internal discussion about race. The word she used has not been disclosed. cbc.ca/news/canada/we…
32/ Tiffany Riley, the headmistress of a high school in Windsor, Vermont, has been forced to take "administrative leave" after writing a Facebook post in which she said, “Just because I don’t walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I am a racist.” vtdigger.org/2020/06/14/win…
33/ Quaker Oats is retiring the 131-year-old Aunt Jemima brand, saying the company recognizes the character's origins are “based on a racial stereotype.” ctvnews.ca/world/aunt-jem…
34/ Following the "retirement" of Aunt Jemima, Mars has announced that its Uncle Ben's brand will be "evolving". nypost.com/2020/06/17/aun…
35/ Tom McGrath, the editor of @phillymag, is "stepping down" after staff sent a memo to parent company, Metrocorp, pointing out the magazine “has not taken sufficient action as a publication to combat systemic racism... " thegrio.com/2020/06/17/phi…
36/ The Rugby Football Union may ban fans singing 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' because it's "culturally appropriation" telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…
37/ Emmanuel Cafferty, a Hispanic truck driver, has been fired after a fellow driver put a picture of his arm hanging out of his truck window on Twitter and claimed it was the white power symbol. A BLM protest was taking place nearby. thehill.com/blogs/blog-bri…
38/ The maker of Eskimo Pies, an ice lolly, is going to change its 99-year-old brand name because “we are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is derogatory”. nypost.com/2020/06/19/esk…
39/ Shropshire Council leader Peter Nutting has been invited to undertake equality and diversity training by the Chief Executive of Shropshire Council after saying "all lives matter", which another councillor described as "naive". shropshirestar.com/news/local-hub…
40/ Ben Mulroney, husband of Jessica Mulroney (see upthread), is "stepping down" as host of eTalk on CBC after his wife lost her own job as a presenter on CBC (and was disowned by "best friend" Meghan Markle) after an insta spat with a black influencer. thepostmillennial.com/ben-mulroney-r…
41/ The Chair of the Board of Governors at British Columbia University, Michael Korenberg, has resigned after liking tweets criticising Antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors. ubyssey.ca/news/michael-k…
42/ Unilever is renaming Fair & Lovely, a skin-lightening cream that has been criticised for promoting negative stereotypes around dark skin tones. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
43/ The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has cut ties with Harald Uhlig, the economist at the University of Chicago, saying his opposition to defunding the police was incompatible with its values of "diversity, equity and inclusion". freebeacon.com/latest-news/de…
44/ The Rev. Daniel Patrick Moloney has been forced to resign as chaplain of MIT after sending an email to students in which he questioned whether racism was a motive in the killing of George Floyd and pointed out had a criminal record. bostonglobe.com/2020/06/16/met…
45/ The Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks because "Dixie" refers to the southern states of the US that broke away to form the new Confederate States of America. A statement on their website reads: "We want to meet this moment." news.sky.com/story/the-dixi…
46/ Disney theme park ride Splash Mountain is being remodelled to remove all references to the 1946 movie Song of the South, which contains racist stereotypes and Old South tropes, according to critics. news.sky.com/story/black-li…
47/ A top curator at the Metropolitan Museum has been accused by 15 colleagues of being a "white supremacist" because he posted a message on Instagram saying he didn't think statues and monuments should be destroyed by revolutionary mobs. nytimes.com/2020/06/24/art…
48/ Jill Snyder, who has served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland for 23 years, has been forced to resign after cancelling an exhibition dealing with police killings of black and Latino boys and men. nytimes.com/2020/06/19/art…
49/ The American Museum of Natural History in New York has announced that its equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt will be removed because it symbolises a legacy of colonial expansion and racial discrimination. nytimes.com/2020/06/21/art…
50/ The Simpsons is ending the use of white actors to voice black and ethnic minority characters. news.sky.com/story/the-simp…
