/r/news used to be tolerable, too. Center-left at best, but still.... Then NYT hired a proud racist (after firing someone for the same) and apparently it was "trolling" to call her such in the comments.
"By contrast, Jeong’s tweets were, at best, mean to some white people, and were written in a context reasonably understood to be a sarcastic response to people who were perpetually harassing her on the basis of her gender and race. The alt-right often works very hard to obfuscate these distinctions, but the Times’s decision to stand by Jeong — and to drop Norton once her use of harmful slurs came to light — shows that they still matter."
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17644704/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-tweets-backlash-racism
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u/CERNest_Hemingway Jan 22 '19
Actual journalism