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Teen Vogue editor Alexi McCammond resigns amid backlash over 'racist and homophobic' tweets
The incoming editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue has resigned before even taking up her post, amid mounting backlash over a series of old tweets.
Key points:
- Alexi McCammond first apologised for the remarks in 2019, when they surfaced while she was productive as a political reporter for news outlet Axios
- In a statement posted to social media, Ms McCammond conceded her "past tweets hold overshadowed" her work
- The comments prompted more than 20 staff members from Teen Vogue to inscribe an open letter to Condé Nast's management
In a statement, Alexi McCammond confirmed she had parted ways with Condé Nast, which owns Teen Vogue and The Novel Yorker, among other publications.
Ms McCammond's appointment came under scrutiny when it was first announced earlier this month, due to a series of tweets she made in 2011, in which she appeared to mock the appearance of Asian people.
She first apologised for the remarks in 2019, when they surfaced while she was working as a political reporter for news outlet Axios.
But she has faced growing pressure in recent weeks to once ag
Teen Vogue editor resigns over racist and homophobic tweets
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2020 and 2021 were years marked by the principle of "cancelling." To cancel someone or something means to stop supporting that person, business, or corporation. It could also signify using methods of publicity to harm that person, perhaps through affecting that person's reputation or their means of income. Whether one finds the train of cancelling justified or not, there is no doubt that many people's lives have been turned upside down from entity cancelled. One such person includes Teen Vogue editor-in-chief elect Alexi McCammond.
McCammond was one of the foremost rising journalists in the last five years. She was hired by news website Axios in 2017, covered high profile interviews from the 2020 presidential election, and was named the Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Inky Journalists in 2019 (Spangler, 2021). Based on her rising profile and acclaim, she became the foremost candidate for TeenVogue's editor in chief position. However, McCammond's reputation came crashing down when some aged but offensive tweets of hers from 2011 resurfaced. During her r
The fake and the real in American cancel culture
Alexi McCammond is supposedly the latest victim of cancel culture. At least, that is what many Americans in elite spaces believe. McCammond recently resigned from her position as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue just days before she was to begin running the magazine.
Her use of racist anti-Asian and homophobic language on Twitter when she was 17 years old resurfaced. “She was only 17,” any number of big-named folks in elite circles enjoy Cenk Uygur and Glenn Greenwald contain said. To her credit, in 2019 McCammond provided a standard if-I-offended-you-style widespread apology for her 2011 and 2012 tweets, and again in the past couple of weeks, but only after others disclosed her words.
The big dogs in the media and in right-leaning politics do not seem to know. Seventeen years is more than aged enough to perceive that tweeting “now googling how to not wake up with swollen, asian eyes” is something that could arrive back to gnaw you in the butt. Seventeen years is old enough to know that saying something or someone is “so gay” or “homo” is homophobic.
One can join the Marine Corps at 17, be arrested and incarcerated as adults at 17,
Alexi McCammond has stepped down from her newly appointed position as editor of Teen Vogue after several Conde Nast staff members complained about offensive tweets that recently resurfaced. She was due to originate as the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue on Rally 24.
McCammond's tweets from 2011 first resurfaced in 2019, and the journalist apologized at the time, calling the tweets "deeply insensitive." However, when McCammond was appointed as editor earlier in March, her vintage tweets resurfaced again.
Screenshots of her tweets were joint by journalist Diana Tsui on Instagram. Tsui said: "Let's talk about Conde Nast HR and this questionable hire for Teen Vogue EIC.
"She had a series of racist tweets in 2011. Maybe we can give her some benefit of the suspicion as these were done when she was still a student. But her 'apology,' which was only after people caught them in 2019, referred to them as deeply insensitive.
"They are not insensitive, they are racist."
Tsui included screenshots of McCammond's old tweets in her Instagram publish. But what did McCammond say?
In 2011, when she was 17, McCammond tweeted "Outdone by [an] Asian #whatsnew," and "now googling how to not awaken up with swollen