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Should we even care that The Washington Post's new opinion editor is a walking journalism scandal?Bill Maher blasts cancel culture as 'Stalinesque,' warns woke 'brats' control the media
Bill Maher came out swinging against cancel culture in the latest episode of "Real Time." Maher cited the most recent victims of cancel culture: former Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond and Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall.
"I swear to God, I don't want to talk about cancel culture and this nonsense every week, but I just think people understand how this is a tsunami and how fast the goalposts change almost on a weekly basis," Maher started the discussion. Maher recently issued a warning about cancel culture, declaring it to be "real, insane, and coming to a neighborhood to you" in a February episode of his HBO talk show.
Maher pointed out that you can get canceled not only for your current supposed infractions but "anything you've ever done." The HBO host was referring to McCammond, who was forced to resign from Teen Vogue for offensive tweets she wrote a decade ago when she was 17-years-old.
Maher exploded, "Can I just say something? People talk s*** in private! We can't legislate that away! For f*** sake, can we have a little common sense? People talk s*** about each other in private."
One of Maher's guests, former Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, attempted to blame Republicans for cancel culture by bringing up the "war on Christmas." Maher responded, "Yeah, they're snowflakes, too, but they don't control the media the way these brats do. That's the problem. I don't think that it was Republicans who got Alexi [fired]."
Maher then moved on to the canceling of a musician for reading a book.
"I was reading about this guy Winston Marshall, the banjo player in Mumford & Sons," Maher said. "This guy tweeted out that he liked a book. It's a book called 'Unmasked.' I never heard of it, you never heard of it, It's apparently not favorable to Antifa, so it's criticizing Antifa. Okay, people write books."
"He tweeted out, 'Finally had the time to read your important book, you're a brave man, to the author," Maher said of the book's author, Andy Ngo. "Now he has to step away, everyone is always 'stepping away,' from the band."
Maher then read the apology from Marshall, and said, "This is his apology, so Soviet. 'Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain I caused by the book I endorsed.' What?!?! Did you hit someone over the head with it? 'I have offended not only a lot of people I don't know but also those closest to me, including my bandmates. And for that, I am truly sorry.'"
"It's so Stalinesque," Maher explained. "You know what, how about, 'I can read what I want. I'm a musician. Don't worry, it won't happen again!'"
Maher compared the current cancel culture climate to the blacklist era of the 1950s.
"Not just what you say, it's now what you listen to, they can catch you for that," he said. "What you order, who you say you like, anything sort of association, if you retweet something."
"I never thought I would live in an era, I remember watching movies about the 50s and the blacklist era when people would whisper that you were you're a communist and all it took was someone informing on you and us saying they saw you at a rally or a peace march and you are branded, and your career was over or you were on the blacklist," he said.
"People go to parties now and they don't want to talk. They're like, 'Can I talk? I don't know your girlfriend. She might be woke.' Really. I'm not making this up," Maher stated. "This informant thing, it's not just what you do, it's what you don't report. That's another way the goalpost moved."
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Taking on “woke" demands. @BillMaher says it reminds him of Hollywood's “blacklists" where now “people go to partie… https://t.co/utUPolTpH8— Brent Baker (@Brent Baker)1616216672.0
Teen Vogue staffer who opposed hiring of Alexi McCammond for offensive tweets previously tweeted the N-word
A senior Teen Vogue staffer who opposed Alexi McCammond's hiring as editor-in-chief because of old offensive tweets has her own history of questionable tweets.
McCammond was hired by Condé Nast to be the new editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, but then decade-old tweets she wrote as a teenager were unearthed. Many staffers at Teen Vogue found the offensive tweets to be "racist and homophobic," which were hurtful towards Asian and LGBTQ communities. Staffers "privately expressed concerns" to Condé Nast's global chief content officer Anna Wintour and CEO Roger Lynch, according to a report from the Daily Beast. More than 20 Teen Vogue staffers also wrote a letter to management to express their concern about McCammond's hiring.
Following the cancel culture firestorm, McCammond and Condé Nast parted ways.
McCammond announced her resignation from the Condé Nast magazine over the tweets she made when she was 17 years old.
"I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities. As a young woman of color, that's part of the reason I was so excited to lead the Teen Vogue team in their next chapter," McCammond said. "My past tweets have overshadowed the work I've done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world — and so Condé Nast and I have decided to part ways."
McCammond was a political journalist at Axios, an NBC and MSNBC contributor, and won an award from the National Association of Black Journalists for being the emerging journalist of the year.
It turns out that one of the Teen Vogue staffers who signed the letter advising management not to hire McCammond because of her racist tweets also wrote offensive tweets in the past. Christine Davitt, a senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, reportedly used the N-word in several tweets from a decade ago.
On March 8, Davitt posted the letter from the Teen Vogue staff to management on her Instagram with the caption: "So proud of my @teenvogue colleagues. The work continues…"
After McCammond announced she would be resigning, Davitt tweeted, "[Exhales the deepest sigh I have ever sighed]," according to the Post Millennial.
Now, Davitt's tweets from 2009 and 2010 have resurfaced, which use the N-word. In two of the tweets, she appears to use the slur while talking to a friend. The third tweet reads, "I love the contradictory nature of the phrase 'white n****.'"
Teen Vogue staffer Christine Davitt canceled for posting racist tweets, including the n-word https://t.co/eabY5xwWJZ— Jack Posobiec (@Jack Posobiec)1616307136.0
Davitt calls herself a "queer fat filipinx femme in brooklyn" in her Instagram bio. Fox News reported, "Davitt says in multiple tweets that she is of mixed Irish and Filipino descent."
Davitt's own magazine published an op-ed in 2019 titled" "Stop Using the N-Word If You're Not Black." The Teen Vogue article lectured their readers, "There's been much debate within the Black community about the N-word and just how much good our supposed 'reclaiming' of it can actually do. And in moments like this, that feels like a valid point. But one thing that shouldn't be up for dispute is who gets to use it. And if you ain't Black, that ain't you."
Davitt has since locked her Twitter account and protected her tweets.
Teen Vogue owner Condé Nast parts with Alexi McCammond after cancel culture controversy over her tweets
Alexi McCammond, the journalist hired to become the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, has resigned from the job before even starting, she announced Thursday.
McCammond, 27, became the focus of cancel culture outrage from Teen Vogue staffers after old social media posts from when she was a teenager surfaced and offended some people. More than 20 members of Teen Vogue staff issued a joint statement condemning her "racist and homophobic tweets."
In a statement posted to social media, McCammond announced her decision to "part ways" with Teen Vogue owner Condé Nast.
"I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities. As a young woman of color, that's part of the reason I was so excited to lead the Teen Vogue team in their next chapter," McCammond said. "My past tweets have overshadowed the work I've done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world — and so Condé Nast and I have decided to part ways."
She continued: "I should not have tweeted what I did and I have taken full responsibility for that. I look at my work and growth in the years since, and have redoubled my commitment to growing in the years to come as both a person and as a professional."
Hey there: I’ve decided to part ways with Condé Nast. Here is my statement about why - https://t.co/YmnHVtZSce— Alexi McCammond (@Alexi McCammond)1616089220.0
The Daily Beast first reported McCammond's exit from Teen Vogue, publishing excerpts from an email Condé Nast sent to staff about McCammond.
"After speaking with Alexi this morning, we agreed that it was best to part ways, so as to not overshadow the important work happening at Teen Vogue," Stan Duncan, Condé Nast's chief people officer, wrote to the staff.
McCammond previously worked for Axios as a political journalist. She is a contributor for NBC and MSNBC and in 2019 received an award from the National Association of Black Journalists for being the emerging journalist of the year.
Days after Teen Vogue hired McCammond as its editor-in-chief, her critics dug up tweets she sent in 2011 that used racist stereotypes about Asian people.
"Now googling how to not wake up with swollen, asian eyes…" McCammond wrote in one tweet. "Give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don't explain what i did wrong...thanks a lot stupid asian T.A. you're great," said another.
McCammond apologized for her tweets several times before splitting with Condé Nast.
Last month, her romantic relationship with former Biden administration deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo stirred controversy after Ducklo allegedly made threats to a Politico reporter who was writing a story about their relationship.
Ducklo was suspended and ultimately resigned from the administration.
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