Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Our institutions offer no principles to explain why some people’s lives are harmed or destroyed, and others’ lives are not.
The New York Times recently hired as a writer and board member Sarah Jeong. The Times knew that in recent years Jeong had posted a series of unapologetically racist anti-white tweets. She had offered wisdom such as “#CancelWhitePeople” and expressed hatred for males.
Yet when the Times discovered less graphic versions of such tweets from newly hired technology writer Quinn Norton earlier this year, the newspaper immediately fired Norton.
The message of disparate treatment was that what bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.