While taking Fox apart in a column last week, the NYT's media columnist Ben Smith snuck in a couple of paragraphs decrying the beating up of "well-intentioned journalists" who inadvertently/naively helped uphold white supremacy. Reader, this does not feel well-intentioned.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1351503444062982144
Back in the 90s, while prepping to teach World Hist. & Spanish at an "independent" HS in a conservative town, I was explicitly told by staff that using words like "multiculturalism" would result in an avalanche of ☎️ from irate parents. This sh*t isn't new or mysterious. 
Speaking of that conservative town:
https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1251612456721567745
Anyways. If you don't have enough things to be mad about, join me in being mad at the NYT for hiring a media columnist eager to look at overt racism, etc. and wholly unable to identify or see the issue with institutionalized biases.
https://twitter.com/sahrasulaiman/status/1351009597096677377
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