August 2, 2018
NYT: New Hire Sarah Jeong ‘Regrets’ Professing Hate for ‘Dumbass F*cking White People’
by Joshua Caplan
Sarah Jeong, a recent hire by the New York Times, is under fire for edgy jokes mocking white people — which puts the Times in a bind, thanks to its set precedent of firing new employees over old, controversial tweets.
The New York Times‘ communications department announced on Wednesday that Jeong will be joining the editorial board as part of a “fab group of recent additions” to the paper’s opinions section in September.
NYTimes Communications
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@NYTimesPR .@SarahJeong joins NYT’s editorial board. She's the newest in a fab group of recent additions to @nytopinion: Michelle Alexander @susanthequark @JenSeniorNY @karaswisher @MCottle @JInterlandi @MaraGay @JyotiThottam @talmonsmith @lauren_kelley @ByAlexMarch https://bit.ly/2LZbiV8
12:09 PM - Aug 1, 2018
In scores of tweets, Jeong — as an epic ironic troll without any underlying bigotry, of course — denigrates whites and compares them to dogs.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
Dumbass fucking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants
12:41 AM - Nov 29, 2014
In another conversation, Jeong riffed on white people being “only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,” which snowballed into a witty rumination on whites smelling like dogs.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins
10:23 PM - Dec 23, 2014
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
· Dec 23, 2014
Replying to @sarahjeong
i have graphs
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
we should address the data head-on pic.twitter.com/XoaX7vUP4x
10:26 PM - Dec 23, 2014
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
the science is indisputable pic.twitter.com/th39vKR40g
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
"but i don't smell like dog when it rains!" you might protest. well you wouldn't know, would you
10:31 PM - Dec 23, 2014
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
these are inconvenient truths but we should thoroughly examine them instead of giving into the PC lie that white people don't smell bad
10:33 PM - Dec 23, 2014
Susie Cagle
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@susie_c
· Dec 24, 2014
Replying to @sarahjeong
@sarahjeong I think you can be racist against white people but it doesn't count as malice
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
@susie_c i mean, there clearly isn't institutional racism, and in many cases, fear of white people doesn't quite amount to racism
6:07 PM - Dec 24, 2014
Jeong wrote in July 2014: “oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.”
“#CancelWhitePeople,” she declared in November 2014, midway through a thread mocking fans of NPR’s “Serial” podcast. “That must be really hard for you, having feelings about race,” she taunted.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
Wow today is full of white people having feelings about race
5:36 PM - Nov 18, 2014
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
· Nov 18, 2014
Wow today is full of white people having feelings about race
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
that must be really hard for you, having feelings about race. xoxo have a nice day
5:36 PM - Nov 18, 2014
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
· Nov 18, 2014
Replying to @sarahjeong
White ppl w/ feels @ @jaycaspiankang & @juliacarriew's criticisms, what r yr feels on Hae In's brother discovering Serial after it came out
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
"Why no I don't think Serial is implicitly about white ppl going all Kool-Aid Man into communities of color they know nothing about"
5:44 PM - Nov 18, 2014
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
· Nov 18, 2014
Replying to @sarahjeong
Having things you like criticized is not pain or marginalization.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong
#CancelWhitePeople
5:51 PM - Nov 18, 2014
The Times and Jeong posted statements Thursday at noon expressing “regret” over her history of biting “satire” — but the paper declared she had passed its “thorough vetting process.”
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@NYTimesPR
Our statement in response to criticism of the hiring of Sarah Jeong.
12:00 PM - Aug 2, 2018
Jeong escaped the fate of previous Times hires who were swiftly fired over old, controversial tweets.
She will join the Times after a stint at The Verge, the technology news outlet owned by far-left Vox Media. The 30-year-old is the author of The Internet of Garbage, which “examines the many forms of online harassment, free speech, and the challenges of moderating platforms and social media networks.” Jeong was born in South Korea and grew up in California and North Carolina. During her time at Harvard Law School, she edited the Journal of Law & Gender. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and Motherboard.
As Jeong’s posts spread into wider circulation Thursday morning, waves of Blue Checkmarks came to her aid.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/02/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-dumb-ss-f-ing-white-people/
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