1. Since @DouthatNYT and @jonathanchait have raised issues about the motives for my TNR piece, I'll give some context.
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2. To me rational for piece should be obvious: very prominent writer (
@tanehisicoates) said TNR has racist past. Deserves attention.3 replies 2 retweets 4 likes -
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3. When an accusation like that is made by someone of real stature, magazine owes its readers an accounting. My piece tried to do that.
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4. All of this got tangled up in kerfuffle about
@FranklinFoer firing and staff shake-up, but let's be clear these are separate issues.1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
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5. Here's what I wrote about Foer and Wieseltier at the time:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/540653138936463360 …
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6. I wrote: "If I had billions of dollars, I would've let Foer and Wieseltier do their stuff for years to come." Are we clear on this?
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7. So: to me, obligation to come to terms with what was bad about Peretz's TNR has nothing, NOTHING, to do with staffing issues at TNR.
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8. Here I am in 2010 calling for a reckoning with TNR's past: https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/the-marty-peretz-situation/ … (long before Hughes ever bought magazine).
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9. So: let's try to disaggregate TNR's racial history (which my piece discusses) from arguments about TNR staffing & Hughes management.
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10. To put it another way: you can think that 1990s TNR was deeply problematic on race and still think
@FranklinFoer was a good editor.2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
11. And you can think that institutional self-analysis on race is good, even while preferring Foer & Wieseltier's magazine.
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