Report: Washington Post suspends Dave Weigel without pay for retweeting offensive joke
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/06/06/report-washington-post-suspends-dave-weigel-without-pay-for-retweeting-offensive-joke/
As Twitchy reported earlier, the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel deleted his retweet of a joke about women and issued an apology on Twitter, saying he didn’t mean to cause any harm. Weigel’s retweet started some infighting in the Washington Post newsroom, with colleague Felicia Sonmez posting a lengthy thread on why it mattered. Jose A. Del Real noted Sonmez’s “targeted harassment” of Weigel, and she tweeted that he had publicly attacked her. By the way, here’s the joke:
Cam Harless (@hamcarless) ~ Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.
10:54 PM · Jun 1, 2022
CNN hall monitor Oliver Darcy is reporting Monday afternoon that Weigel has been suspended without pay.
Darcy reports:
Sonmez, according to messages obtained by CNN, also confronted Weigel in an internal company Slack channel, tagging him and writing, “I’m sorry but what is this?” Sonmez said in the Slack channel that the retweet sent “a confusing message about what the Post’s values are.”
Others joined the discussion in the Slack channel, ultimately resulting in national editor Matea Gold writing, “I just want to assure all of you that The Post is committed to maintaining a respectful workplace for everyone. We do not tolerate demeaning language or actions.”
The Post’s chief spokesperson, Kris Coratti, also issued a statement that said, “Editors have made clear to the staff that the tweet was reprehensible and demeaning language or actions like that will not be tolerated.”
So much drama!
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) ~ Taylor Lorenz just got caught repeatedly lying in her article such that WaPo had to revise it 3 times as an "Editor's Note," and it still contains a lie: nothing happened.
Dave Weigel immediately apologized for retweeting a joke and is suspended without pay.
{Cont.} The reason this matters is because the people at these media corporations who constantly reveal themselves to be deranged sociopathic freaks and neurotics -- as is happening now at the WaPo -- are the ones demanding the right to declare Truth and Falsity and censor in its name.
Shawn Wylde (@wyldeAF( ~ WaPo is acting real bi-polar.
Rootinforthe9since85 (@Rootinforthe9s1) ~ Pretty inoffensive joke. Eating their own.
Andy Wilcoxson (@AndyWilcoxson) ~ The joke he retweeted was funny: "Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual."
The sort of miserable prig who would be offended by a joke like that isn't the kind of person that other people want to be around.
John Schroeder (@thejwschroeder) ~ Exactly why you never should apologize.
CJ (@UnderSneege) ~ The cry bullies are in charge.
Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) ~ By suspending Dave Weigel for a joke while letting the locker room cancers Taylor Lorenz and Felicia Sonmez discredit its editorial practices and standards and publicly attack colleagues, respectively, with impunity, the Washington Post is sending an unmistakable message.
Yeah, the unmistakable message is that The WaPo is a pathetic joke, itself.
Hoe-Style Takeover (@neutspec) ~ The faster you submit the harder they will come down on you. That’s the only thing you need to know about cancel culture.
“Weigel did not respond to a request for comment, but an out-of-office email said that he would return on July 5.”
Weigel is in hiding.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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