29. But I want to return to something I started with: my reluctance to write about this stuff, which I always find very painful.
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30. I really wrestled with whether to write about the Kay interview or not. It's worth asking why it is so hard to raise these issues.
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31. I criticized Jon before when he was hired, so I was worried revisiting this stuff would come across as a vendetta.
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32. And personally I like Jon, and have already stretched my friendship with him near the breaking point.
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33. It might be useful to clarify that this isn't about Jon but about widely shared elite attitudes he usefully articulated.
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34. In terms of personal kindness and professional ability, Jon is beyond reproach.
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35. But that's just the problem: Jon is a good guy, a good editor, but he represents a system that doesn't think it has a diversity problem
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36. So listening to Jon Kay is like confronting the a concrete wall. You can only bang your head against it.
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37. I'll wrap this up but I have to say I'm mystified by
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@colbycosh Not all white folks but all straight white reactionary men who have had National Post columns.
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