20. This push against inclusiveness & attendant hiring practices explains core problem of TNR on racism: its indifference to black voices
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21. In 1986 TNR published thought experiment: you run jewelry store, black man comes to door late at night, do you let him in?
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22. Here's a summary by Jeffrey Hart (National Review editor & Mussolini fan) of that TNR article: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19861120&id=-gUxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=guAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3698,2809029 …
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23. I will let Mr. Ta-Nehisi Coates give the proper response to this stuff.
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@tanehisicoates Thing that offends about the way they dealt with race was that it was a thought experiment for them.1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes -
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@tanehisicoates It was never, "Shit, that could be my son. Or shit, maybe the guy calls the police and my best friend's kid gets shot"1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
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@tanehisicoates also usefully reminded us, part of Stephen Glass story was Glass's willingness to cater to Peretz on race issues1 reply 3 retweets 8 likes -
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27. Glass's fabulist essay "Taxi Cabs and The Meaning of Work" was written to order to satisfy Peretz's worldview: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/on-the-cheapness-of-life/63172/ …
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28. We could be here all night going over problematic TNR stories. Point is: Bell Curve issue wasn't stand alone. It was part of pattern
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29. For anyone who doubts there is more of this stuff, see this Peretz dossier (only up till 2007, far from complete) http://peretzdossier.blogspot.ca/
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30. And there's more quotes and context in this http://vox.com piece: http://www.vox.com/2014/12/5/7339473/new-republic-race …
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31. Point here isn't to negate the worth of the magazine. TNR has been important, influential (sometimes in bad ways), published great stuff
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32. But if we're going to speak grandly about TNR as a "public trust" then we have to come to terms with magazine's full legacy, good & bad
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