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Never apologize to the mob

The worst thing you can ever do is show weakness.

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Mar 21, 2021
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Alexi McCammond, the would-be editor of Teen Vogue, made two terrible mistakes.

The first was writing some racist and homophobic tweets when she was a teenager. Unfortunately, until time travel is perfected, there is nothing she can do about that in 2021.

The second mistake, and the one that really cost her the job, was apologizing.

Robby Soave, in Reason, notes that McCammond’s apology wasn’t enough to save her job:

Conde Nest, the media company that owns Teen Vogue, was aware of the tweets when it hired McCammond, who had already apologized for them. The bosses evidently did not expect such furor from Teen Vogue staff—though that's rather shortsighted on their part, given the large number of similar uprisings at progressive media workspaces. Even so, the perception that anti-Asian hate crimes are rising—including the possibility that the Georgia massage parlor murders were motivated by anti-Asian bias—meant it was bad timing for an incoming editor to be involved in an even tangentially…

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