Ezra Klein: Another way of thinking about cancel culture
We would all do better to remember that what feels like an offhand tweet to us could have real consequences for others.
An undated portrait of Ezra Klein of The New York Times. (Anastasiia Sapon/The New York Times)
By Ezra Klein | The New York Times
| April 18, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
In March, Alexi McCammond, the newly hired editor of Teen Vogue, resigned following backlash over offensive tweets she’d sent a decade ago, beginning when she was 17. In January, Will Wilkinson lost his job as vice president for research at the center-right Niskanen Center for a satirical tweet about Republicans who wanted to hang Mike Pence. (Wilkinson was also suspended from his role as a New York Times Opinion contributor.)
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