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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@tomscocca@HeerJeet "...suggesting that its motto ought to be 'Looking for a Qualified Black Since 1914'" http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/22/us/racial-charge-causes-anger-at-newspaper.html …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@LemieuxLGM @tomscocca Well, at that point they'd never had a black staffer. Since then, they've had 2.
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