So many of these types of dramas are driven overwhelmingly by dynamics of class, yet those are rarely highlighted because it's not in the interests of those who control the discourse to highlight them.
People who went to $60k/year prep schools so often play a starring role:
People who went to $60k/year prep schools so often play a starring role:
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1361149624803713028
And by "falsely," @lhfang obviously wasn't suggesting that the extremely rich teenager who was McNeil's primary accuser conveyed his statements inaccurately -- although McNeil suggests that -- but he was expressing his view that these statements don't make McNeil a racist.
The interaction between class, newsrooms and journalist unions was discussed last week by @aaronsibarium. Beyond the data he cites, this absolutely tracks my own knowledge of who is in these newsrooms as well as how The Intercept's Union functioned.
freebeacon.com/media/union-or…
freebeacon.com/media/union-or…
Just imagine working your way up from copyboy to a NYT reporter over the course of 45 years, then having your career ended by a teenager with this mentality that comes from being born into an extremely rich family & sheltered at $60,000/year prep schools:
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