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Ian Miles Cheong

24 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read

https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1353124692069019649

No one "pressured" the NYT to fire her. They made that choice on their own. The NYT deserves all of the blame for this, not those who criticized her tweets.

https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1353124692069019649

Someone complains, they respond, and then they say "look at what you made me do!" Somehow it's everyone's fault that she put out a dumb tweet and people responded to it. It's not the fault of the people who fired her. No sir. They were *forced* to do it.

I love this narrative that the New York Times somehow bends over to "fascists" and Trump supporters if they complain loudly enough.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1348968011911335936

Meanwhile at the NYT:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1348968011911335936

It's okay when they call for other people's firings but when one of their own publications fires someone it's YOUR fault.

For what it's worth, I don't agree with NYT's firing of that editor. She didn't say anything really fireable. But her friend Josh's efforts to blame everyone but the NYT for it doesn't do her any favors.

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