{"id":578442,"date":"2021-07-01T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578442"},"modified":"2021-07-01T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:20:44","slug":"twitter-suspends-ny-times-columnists-account-after-he-denounces-equity-as-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-suspends-ny-times-columnists-account-after-he-denounces-equity-as-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends NY Times\u2019 Columnist\u2019s Account After He Denounces Equity as \u2018Racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftwitter-suspends-ny-times-columnists-account-after-he-denounces-equity-as-racism%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=578442&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/7B5F2544-0615-423C-8FFD-E7704BF6B01D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twitter has suspended the account of a Pultizer Prize-winning New York Times op-ed writer one day after he wrote a column denouncing woke ideology as a form of \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times posted Bret Stephens\u2019 latest column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/28\/opinion\/racism-antiracism-discrimination.html\">titled<\/a> \u201cThe New Racism Won\u2019t Solve the Old Racism,\u201d on its website on June 28 and published it in the print issue dated June 29.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Stephens wrote that the drive to bring about intersectional \u201cequity\u201d \u2014 often designated by the term \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d (DEI) \u2014 \u201cis insulting to everyone who still believes we should be judged by the content of our character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the government should redistribute wealth along racial lines has taken on new life since Ibram X. Kendi made it the central pillar of his bestseller, \u201cHow to be an Antiracist.\u201d Kendi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-host-accuses-josh-hawley-of-misquoting-ibram-x-kendi-it-was-a-real-quote\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>[R]acial discrimination is not inherently racist. \u2026 The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephens argued that DEI violates the morality of most Americans in both sly and blunt ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSly is the redefinition of the word \u2018equity,\u2019 which in common English means the quality of being fair and impartial, to mean something closer to the opposite: the quality of being anything but impartial to achieve a desired, supposedly fairer result,\u201d wrote Stephens. \u201cAnd blunt is the racial preference, the explicit segregation, the insulting assumption-making and the overall intellectual sophistry that is antiracist ideology in action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens noted, for instance, that requiring Jewish employees to join \u201cwhiteness accountability\u201d is ludicrous, given the ways white supremacists have victimized Jews at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be hard to see that trying to solve the old racism with the new racism will produce only more racism,\u201d Stephens concluded. \u201cJustice is never achieved by turning tables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 30, a Twitter reader noted that Twitter had suspended Bret Stephens\u2019 Twitter account, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bretstephensnyt\">@BretStephensNYT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust read a piece by Bret Stephens in the int version of @nytimes\/@nytopinion, thinking \u2018that\u2019s gonna be controversial\u2019. Turns out his Twitter is already suspended. Wow that\u2019s fast!\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliseKatona\/status\/1410260915124117511\">tweet<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6457564575646\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just read a piece by Bret Stephens in the int version of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytopinion<\/a>, thinking \u201cthat\u2019s gonna be controversial\u201d. Turns out his Twitter is already suspended. Wow that\u2019s fast! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VWD8KxxHHw\">pic.twitter.com\/VWD8KxxHHw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sabrina Elise Katonoff (@EliseKatona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliseKatona\/status\/1410260915124117511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephens\u2019 Twitter account now says merely, \u201c<strong>Account suspended<\/strong>. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/18311\">Twitter Rules<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens previously wrote a devastating critique of the New York Times\u2019 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones\u2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning undertaking to date America\u2019s founding from the importation of the first African slaves. Stephens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/09\/opinion\/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html\">noted<\/a>the comprehensive scholarly rejection of Hannah-Jones\u2019 assertions before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bret-stephens-dismantles-1619-project-thesis-in-search-of-evidence\">calling<\/a> the undertaking a \u201cthesis in search of evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Stephens penned a column objecting to the way longtime New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. \u201cresigned\u201d after public backlash that he had said the n-word while chaperoning his daughter\u2019s field trip \u2014 to ask about the context in which it was used. The New York Times ultimately refused to print Stephens\u2019 column, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/11\/read-the-column-the-new-york-times-didnt-want-you-read\/\">published<\/a> by the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not immediately respond to inquiries about the reason for the suspension.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has suspended the account of a Pultizer Prize-winning New York Times op-ed writer one day after he wrote a column denouncing woke ideology as a form of \u201cracism.\u201dThe New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313819,"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\/7B5F2544-0615-423C-8FFD-E7704BF6B01D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Twitter Suspends NY Times\u2019 Columnist\u2019s Account After He Denounces Equity as \u2018Racism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578442","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\/7B5F2544-0615-423C-8FFD-E7704BF6B01D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Twitter Suspends NY Times\u2019 Columnist\u2019s Account After He Denounces Equity as \u2018Racism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578442","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=578442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}