Check out the hashtag #TantonNetwork, which I and a few others have been painstakingly building up for several years now in order to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for future researchers, for more information
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That crisis has been building for years. It's a real shame that my colleagues and employers in public media did not listen to my concerns about misogyny and racism within its ranks for all those years.
I even filed HR complaints about it so that there would be a paper trail. I started doing that in 2013 or 2014. I was told "people of color just don't apply to public media" by HR at one point and I was so shocked that I thought he was doing a bit and laughed. He wasn't joking.
I also got told repeatedly that I was "too cute" to be a "proper reporter" (by editors who later told me I was "too immature" for a full-time job.) That was not a compliment. These experiences were at large local NPR affiliates in southern California.
"The instructor allegedly made antisemitic comments during the reenactment. The parent said that when the children asked why the Germans did this, the staff member said it was “because the Jews ruined Christmas.”" washingtonpost.com/education/2021…
These are the exact types of people currently trying to take control of your school boards, Americans.
"The librarian — identified as Kimberlynn Jurkowski — was accused in a tutoring scam in New Jersey that defrauded the Atlantic City school district of thousands of dollars and had her teaching licenses suspended for three years by the state [DoE] in 2017." nj.com/education/2021…
"The fliers, which police said may have been distributed overnight, mentioned a “COVID agenda” and named several federal health and corporate officials while also noting they were Jewish. “Every Single Aspect of the COVID Agenda Is Jewish,” the fliers said."
Well, I mean look what Trump's original crew was up to all over the world. Ratfucking elections all over the world was Paul Manafort's specialty, back when he was a "lobbyist" at that firm with his old pal Roger Stone