The Open Racism of the New York Times
By Victor Rosenthal
Donald G. McNeil Jr. was a science writer at the New York Times. Now he is unemployed.
Here is how he described the event that triggered his forced resignation:
On a 2019 New York Times trip to Peru for high school students, I was asked at dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself.
To be more precise, he did not use the word. He mentioned it. He talked about it. He did not, if I may be permitted to commit the same offense, call anybody a “nigger.”
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