Cancel Culture Comes To Teen Vogue

"Condé Nast is facing a staff mutiny at Teen Vogue over the hiring of its new editor-in-chief. According to a Daily Beast article published on Monday night, some of the online magazine’s staff began raising concerns over the past weekend about tapping the 27-year-old Axios reporter Alexi McCammond as top editor."

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[bostonboston]

Shame on Ana for arguing that in 2011 making racist comments toward Asians was "acceptable", and therefore we can't hold Alexi accountable. This is the exact same argument that the host of the Bachelor made when he advocated that we need to treat people who attended slave plantation reenactment parties a decade ago differently than now. Nobody is "pressured" to make racist tweets. You do it because you are either ignorant or have a flawed character, and in either case you deserve to be held to account.

[sammcbride]

They didn't have Twitter when I was a teenager. We used to write stuff on walls and sidewalks.

[fortune_roses]

Regardless of being 17, I find it troublesome that someone in a leadership role at a teen magazine has said things like "how to not wake up with swollen Asian eyes" and "stupid Asian" etc... and obviously the homophobic comments as well. 17 is young but it's still pretty troublesome to think about

[owendavis]

How dare you....Ron Swanson is an American hero. Also...what is teen vogue?

[AnyoneCanSee]

I felt sorry for the girl that made the "going to Africa hope I don't get AIDS" joke and Twitter stalked her on her flight and someone even went to the airport to photograph her getting off the flight and she lost her career over it. The first part started "leaving the UK, bad food and bad teeth, " so she was clearly making an off-colour joke. I'm British and don't want her cancelled over the teeth joke.
Free speech was hard-won. Be careful about giving it up so easily.

[trentreznik]

The left are eating their own! I love it

[aw]

Her age is not an excuse. She was old enough to understand hurtful comments.

[jeddy]

It sucks when cancel culture swings in your direction isn’t it. I don’t care who you are on the left or right you should not be canceled over something stupid you said words are not weapons there words get over it.

[gigichenoweth]

A 17-year old who uses anti-asian, gay, and homophobic remarks has probably been using these remarks all her life. She apologized in 2019 when she was called out about these tweets. She then apologized and removed the tweets. She swept all these remarks under the rug and dismissed any responsibility.. Al;exi McCommand should not be editor in chief of a publication that influences young minds. If Conde Nast sees this woman as the best person for the job, then I think it needs to stop saying its committed to a diverse workplace. Twenty of Conde's staff are so upset that they wrote a letter. Shame on Conde Nast for sweeping this person's past.

[allaroundamazing]

Y’all been tryna cancel people since your existence and yet here you are tryna pretend like you’re against it lol.

[Anonymous-xgxq]

But if it is a white women, u would have cried till she fired...curb your will not leave anyone..

[lindsaymac]

The world has become Snowflake Central.
A 17-year old [female] college student made some off-hand comments to a friend, which at the time were considered humorous banter, and a decade later someone wants to get their nose out of joint? Gedouddahere. The girl apologised for the comments and deleted them two years ago, end of story.

[bobsagett]

Let’s stop with this kind of woke shit. Gives republicans an excuse to keep voting how they do, and it’s posturing at its finest.

[cmiller]

Nobody wants apologies, they just want to destroy you. These idiots love to bring you down then pat themselves on their self-righteous shoulders

[sawcery]

People that dig up old tweets to try and get other people fired are the worst kind of people. If I was the boss I’d turn around and fire their asses instead.

[jjw]

Way to not discuss her anti-Asian tweets. Or the fact that many of those "jealous" staffers who raised the issue were Asian themselves. But I guess you figured those were more indefensible so you just skipped over the racism part.

[toneriggz]

I remember Alexi tried to cancel Charles Barkley a few years ago but it backfired on her.

[bostonboston]

Wosney presents a flawed argument on a number of counts. 1) He implies that Alexi would lose her livelihood if she fails to retain her job. That's not what's at stake here. What's at stake is the EIC role. Were she to lose that, she would be fine regardless. Someone would hire her as a political analyst or journalist. 2) "Doing something egregious" is the litmus test he offers that would satisfy whether or not a person deserves getting fired. a) By concluding that she deserves to keep her job, he is implying that racist comments made against Asians aren't in fact egregious. That's complete BS and you know he would have a heart attack if his incoming boss had made racist comments about black people. b) The litmus test for firing a leader of a diverse workplace comes down to whether or not that person can actually lead. When you make racist comments you pretty much forfeit your right to lead a diverse group. 3) He implies her character was "desecrated", as if she is somehow a victim who has been violated, when in fact it was she who made the racist comments. This is either highly ignorant or manipulative framing.

[JessieBanana]

I'm gay and I am not holding someone accountable for homophobic tweets from when they were 17. You have to take into account age and growth. Also, it seems like these have been blown up and taken out of context. I feel like "staff" had a vendetta or were jealous of her success.

[Zenmasterzzz]

So we shouldn’t hold people accountable for they they said in 2011? I was her age in 2012 and I knew what racist, homophobes etc. Yes, she apologize but I don’t think we should dismiss her staff’s concerns about her past racist tweets so lightly. If I had a boss that said shit like that in the past I would look at her side ways too. And to the guy who said he doesn’t know what micro aggression is, all the examples you have such as being followed in the store, women clutching their bags and more are all micro aggression.