{"id":493109,"date":"2021-05-10T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=493109"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:20:45","slug":"teen-vogues-new-editor-has-an-n-word-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-vogues-new-editor-has-an-n-word-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Vogue\u2019s New Editor Has an N-Word Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteen-vogues-new-editor-has-an-n-word-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=493109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.849740932642\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/\">Satire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Racial slur appears in Versa Sharma&#8217;s Twitter feed in latest blow to publication&#8217;s woke credentials<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-736x474-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-736x474.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\">\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 May 10, 2021 4:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"92.286633309507\">\n<p><em>Teen Vogue<\/em> on Monday announced the hiring of a new editor-in-chief, nearly two months after the previous candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/anna-wintour-caves-to-woke-mob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexi McCammond<\/a>, was forced to resign over a series of problematic tweets she wrote as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Versa Sharma, the person tapped to replace McCammond, could face a similar backlash after the N-word was discovered in a tweet she posted in 2014. Sharma, a\u00a0managing editor at the news website NowThis, tagged a Twitter user whose handle included the racial slur. She posted the hateful message in response to another user&#8217;s tweet that also contained the racial slur. Sharma, 34, was in her mid-20s at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1473339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM.png\" alt width=\"1190\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM.png 1190w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM-1024x688.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM-736x495.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.49.19-PM-730x491.png 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1190px) 100vw, 1190px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anna Wintour, the chief content officer of <em>Teen Vogue<\/em> parent company Cond\u00e9 Nast, described Sharma as &#8220;a natural leader with a global perspective and deep understanding of local trends and issues\u2014from politics and activism to culture and fashion.&#8221; Wintour did not address the N-word controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma, meanwhile, declined to weigh in on\u00a0the McCammond controversy during an interview with the <em>New York Times.\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really feel it&#8217;s my place to comment on that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;All I can say is I share the values of the <em>Teen Vogue<\/em> staff and audience, and I&#8217;m very excited to work with them and work together moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the journalistic standards <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/inside-the-grey-ladys-meltdown-over-donald-mcneils-resignation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">established<\/a> by the <em>Times<\/em>, self-respecting publications &#8220;do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.&#8221; Those are the words <em>Times<\/em> executive editor Dean Baquet used to justify the paper&#8217;s decision to cut ties with longtime science reporter Donald McNeil, who was alleged to have used the N-word in a non-racist fashion during a <em>Times<\/em>-sponsored trip to Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Baquet ultimately walked back his comments regarding intent, further muddling the industry standards for assessing racist language. McCammond, for example, was forced to resign even though she deleted the offending tweets and issued multiple apologies for using problematic language as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of teenagers, a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> analysis of Sharma&#8217;s social media feed revealed an extensive online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=(from%3Aversharma)%20taylor%20lorenz&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationship<\/a> with Taylor Lorenz, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/new-york-times-exhaustion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial<\/a><em>\u00a0Times<\/em> reporter who covers teen culture and other meme-related content. Additionally, the analysis uncovered several examples of problematic language in Sharma&#8217;s feed.\u00a0In addition to using the N-word, the incoming <em>Teen Vogue<\/em> editor has:<\/p>\n<p>Insulted Mexicans:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1473435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.20-PM.png\" alt width=\"1196\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.20-PM.png 1196w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.20-PM-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.20-PM-1024x356.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.20-PM-768x267.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.20-PM-736x256.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Promoted violence against the trans community by using gender-exclusive language:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1473438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.42-PM.png\" alt width=\"1186\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.42-PM.png 1186w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.42-PM-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.42-PM-1024x487.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.42-PM-768x365.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.42-PM-736x350.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dabbled in the sexual objectification of religious minorities:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1473441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.30-PM.png\" alt width=\"1186\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.30-PM.png 1186w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.30-PM-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.30-PM-1024x264.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.30-PM-768x198.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-2.30.30-PM-736x190.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do these tweets represent the kind of inclusive leadership required to succeed in online journalism?\u00a0<em>Teen Vogue\u2014<\/em>the publication behind such epic posts as &#8220;Kendall Jenner Just Wore $55 Sneakers&#8221; and &#8220;29 Best History Memes That Are Totally Hilarious&#8221;\u2014deserves better.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire Racial slur appears in Versa Sharma&#8217;s Twitter feed in latest blow to publication&#8217;s woke credentials  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 10, 2021 4:15 pm Teen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277710,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-736x474-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Teen Vogue\u2019s New Editor Has an N-Word Problem","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/teen-vogue-editor-736x474-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Teen Vogue\u2019s New Editor Has an N-Word Problem","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}