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   hamilton to All   
   Nigger Hindu USA Today editor fired for    
   25 May 21 06:01:36   
   
   XPost: wa.politics, alt.politics.clinton, alt.politics.conservative   
   XPost: atl.general   
   From: nigger-lovers@disney.com   
      
   A USA Today editor announced Friday that she was terminated over   
   a tweet she posted in reaction to Monday's deadly shooting in   
   Boulder, Colorado that erroneously blamed a "White man" for the   
   attack.   
      
   Hemal Jhaveri, who served as the "race and inclusion" editor of   
   USA Today's Sports Media Group, was one of many liberals who   
   rushed to trumpet their judgment that a "White man" was   
   responsible for the massacre at a grocery store that left 10   
   dead.   
      
   "It's always an angry [W]hite man. always," Jhaveri wrote in   
   agreement with Deadspin writer Emily Julia DiCaro, who had   
   similarly written, "Extremely tired of people's lives depending   
   on whether a [W]hite man with an AR-15 is having a good day or   
   not."   
      
   After police identified the suspect as Syria-born Colorado   
   resident Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, critics accused Jhaveri and the   
   others who assumed the gunman was White of racism.   
      
   TWITTER LIBERALS RUSH TO BLAME BOULDER SHOOTING ON 'WHITE MEN'   
   BEFORE SUSPECT AHMAD AL ALIWI ALISSA IDENTIFIED   
      
   Jhaveri deleted the tweet, which apparently was not enough to   
   save her job.   
      
   "I am no longer employed at USA TODAY, a company that was my   
   work home for almost eight years," Jhaveri wrote in an essay   
   published on Medium. "On Monday night, I sent a tweet responding   
   to the fact that mass shooters are most likely to be [W]hite   
   men. It was a dashed off over-generalization, tweeted after   
   pictures of the shooter being taken into custody surfaced   
   online. It was a careless error of [judgment], sent at a heated   
   time, that doesn’t represent my commitment to racial equality. I   
   regret sending it. I apologized and deleted the tweet."   
      
   She then shared screenshots of "several high profile alt-right   
   Twitter accounts" who picked up her tweet "as an example of anti-   
   [W[hite bias and racism against [W]hites." One of the accounts   
   she spotlighted belongs to popular YouTube host and frequent Fox   
   News guest Dave Rubin, who mocked, "I'm shocked and appalled   
   that the Race and Inclusion editor at a major newspaper is, in   
   fact, a racist."   
      
   KAMALA HARRIS' NIECE BLASTED FOR TWEET ASSUMING COLORADO SHOOTER   
   WAS WHITE MAN: 'THIS IS WILD'   
      
   "There was social media outrage, threats and harassment towards   
   me, and by the end of the day, USA TODAY had relieved me of my   
   position as a Race and Inclusion editor," Jhaveri explained. "I   
   wish I were more surprised by it, but I’m not. Some part of me   
   has been waiting for this to happen because I can’t do the work   
   I do and write the columns I write without invoking the ire and   
   anger of alt-right Twitter."   
      
   "I had always hoped that when that moment inevitably came, USA   
   TODAY would stand by me and my track record of speaking the   
   truth about systemic racism. That, obviously, did not happen,"   
   she added.   
      
   Suspect in Boulder, Colorado mass shooting makes first court   
   appearanceVideo   
   Jhaveri went on to admit that she was "previously disciplined"   
   for her Twitter activity, claiming, "My previous tweets were   
   flagged not for inaccuracy or for political bias, but for   
   publicly naming whiteness as a defining problem. That is   
   something USA TODAY, and many other newsrooms across the   
   country, can not tolerate" and that she was the victim of "micro-   
   aggressions and outright racist remarks from the majority   
   [W]hite staff."   
      
   She alleged instances when she was asked "not to use language   
   that would alienate [W]hite audiences in stories about Black   
   golfers and another instance when an editor asked her "what it   
   was like to be Indian" since his daughter was marrying an Indian   
   man.   
      
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   "This is not about bias, or keeping personal opinions off of   
   Twitter. It’s about challenging whiteness and being punished for   
   it... Like many places, USA TODAY values 'equality and   
   inclusion,' but only as long as it knows its rightful place,   
   which is subservient to [W]hite authority," Jhaveri concluded.   
      
   A spokesperson for Gannett, USA Today's parent company, told Fox   
   News that the paper was "founded on the basis of diversity,   
   equity and inclusion" and that "We hold our employees   
   accountable to these principles both personally and   
   professionally."   
      
   "While we can't discuss personnel matters and don't want to   
   comment on the specifics of her statements on Medium, we firmly   
   believe in and stand by our principles of diversity and   
   inclusion," the spokesperson added.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/media/usa-today-editor-hemal-jhaveri-   
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