Bon Appetit not paying non-white editors for appearances

[Anonymous]

Some white people have the patronizing mindset that BIPOC should feel lucky to even be allowed to be even in these "presitige" spaces regardless of their education, experience. Asking for equal compensation or pushing for a promotion is seen as being ungrateful for the opportunity. The white colleagues turn a blind eye because competition for association with these presitige brands is cutthroat; they are relieved so see that their competent BIPOC peers are unlikely to be a real threat to their career ambitions anyway because racism is alive an well. This is also common in the fashion industry.

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I also noticed they really push Claire and gave her the most clickbait series, which stacks the deck to ensure she seems super popular. When in reality she’s boring as hell and her pals Rappaport, et al gave her preferential treatment. That Rappaport guy always creeped me out. I figured he was making more than all the on air dorks combined.

Brad should have a traveling show on Food TV. He’s wasting his personality at BA.

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Proud of Sohla. Hope she comes back with a $100K contract.

"I was just too angry to not say anything," El-Waylly said when asked why she decided to speak out now. "I was thinking about posting a message like this before ... but [the photo] just made me feel like, why not? I don't owe these people anything. They haven't treated me well, so f it."

Moving forward, she hopes Condé Nast fills the editor-in-chief position with a person of color. El-Waylly said she and her colleagues also plan to share information about their contracts and salaries to make sure everyone is treated fairly.

"We can’t let Condé Nast off the hook, and the whole team is going to keep putting pressure on them," she said.

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Anonymous wrote:Also an old photo of EIC Adam Rappaport is making the rounds where he is dressed up as a Puerto Rican. It’s incredibly offensive.

He just resigned, it's on his instagram.

I don’t understand why he resigned. I admit I haven’t read everything about this— but, he was a Puerto Rican for Halloween in 2004ish....that’s why?? I guess it didn’t seem resignation material to me, but that’s his battle.

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Aren’t assistant editors always paid less than editors? I don’t see the issue here but I feel it’s because I’m missing info.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t assistant editors always paid less than editors? I don’t see the issue here but I feel it’s because I’m missing info.

She’s mid 30s with real experience, while the “star” brats are idle rich layabouts with no real experience. Claire is like 35 and never had a real job. But she went to Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also an old photo of EIC Adam Rappaport is making the rounds where he is dressed up as a Puerto Rican. It’s incredibly offensive.

He just resigned, it's on his instagram.

I don’t understand why he resigned. I admit I haven’t read everything about this— but, he was a Puerto Rican for Halloween in 2004ish....that’s why?? I guess it didn’t seem resignation material to me, but that’s his battle.

Obviously it wasn’t just a picture. His ACTIONS got him sacked. Anyone who saw that creep on camera could tell he was a passive aggressive scumbag up to no good.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t assistant editors always paid less than editors? I don’t see the issue here but I feel it’s because I’m missing info.

She’s mid 30s with real experience, while the “star” brats are idle rich layabouts with no real experience. Claire is like 35 and never had a real job. But she went to Harvard.

Yep. It should be a conversation on why she was a Assistant Editor in the first place when she clearly runs circles around this -

GOURMET Tator Tots I mean...its a crime against humanity

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Claire literally says in her video "I'm not basing that on any firsthand knowledge..." Meanwhile Sohla is the background doing the actual work.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t assistant editors always paid less than editors? I don’t see the issue here but I feel it’s because I’m missing info.

So it is ok to play POC less if you give them a crappier title?

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This question is coming from an Asian-American -

Can you tell me specifically why the Puerto Rican thing is an issue? I understand why black face is problematic because of the history of it. I saw what I assume is the costume in question and it looks like he just dressed up as a baseball player who is Puerto Rican (I don’t know which one)? I don’t see the “brown face”... is he wearing makeup in the picture? I’m more offended by the woman who is pictured in stereotypical garb.

I’m just thinking that people dress up as Cleopatra and all sorts of specific people and nobody seems offended at that.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is coming from an Asian-American -

Can you tell me specifically why the Puerto Rican thing is an issue? I understand why black face is problematic because of the history of it. I saw what I assume is the costume in question and it looks like he just dressed up as a baseball player who is Puerto Rican (I don’t know which one)? I don’t see the “brown face”... is he wearing makeup in the picture? I’m more offended by the woman who is pictured in stereotypical garb.

I’m just thinking that people dress up as Cleopatra and all sorts of specific people and nobody seems offended at that.

I meant to clarify that I think the woman pictured is offensive because she doesn’t seem to be a specific person, just a costume involving racial tropes. With Rapoport, I’m assuming he is dressing up like a specific ball player. If he’s actually just dressed as “a Puerto Rican,” I can see why that’s offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t assistant editors always paid less than editors? I don’t see the issue here but I feel it’s because I’m missing info.

So it is ok to play POC less if you give them a crappier title?

I think the real question is why all the editors are white while only assistant editors are POC. It was slightly misleading to say only white editors were paid. Only editors were paid. Yes, all those editors happen to be white. And that is the problem. It’s not that there are white editors and POC editors and only the white ones were paid.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is coming from an Asian-American -

Can you tell me specifically why the Puerto Rican thing is an issue? I understand why black face is problematic because of the history of it. I saw what I assume is the costume in question and it looks like he just dressed up as a baseball player who is Puerto Rican (I don’t know which one)? I don’t see the “brown face”... is he wearing makeup in the picture? I’m more offended by the woman who is pictured in stereotypical garb.

I’m just thinking that people dress up as Cleopatra and all sorts of specific people and nobody seems offended at that.

I meant to clarify that I think the woman pictured is offensive because she doesn’t seem to be a specific person, just a costume involving racial tropes. With Rapoport, I’m assuming he is dressing up like a specific ball player. If he’s actually just dressed as “a Puerto Rican,” I can see why that’s offensive.

Non-Asian here. I'll answer your question with a question - how did you feel about Scarlett Johansen playing the title character in Ghost In A Shell?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is coming from an Asian-American -

Can you tell me specifically why the Puerto Rican thing is an issue? I understand why black face is problematic because of the history of it. I saw what I assume is the costume in question and it looks like he just dressed up as a baseball player who is Puerto Rican (I don’t know which one)? I don’t see the “brown face”... is he wearing makeup in the picture? I’m more offended by the woman who is pictured in stereotypical garb.

I’m just thinking that people dress up as Cleopatra and all sorts of specific people and nobody seems offended at that.

I meant to clarify that I think the woman pictured is offensive because she doesn’t seem to be a specific person, just a costume involving racial tropes. With Rapoport, I’m assuming he is dressing up like a specific ball player. If he’s actually just dressed as “a Puerto Rican,” I can see why that’s offensive.

Non-Asian here. I'll answer your question with a question - how did you feel about Scarlett Johansen playing the title character in Ghost In A Shell?

I wouldn’t tweet demanding she be booed or protested as a racist. I don’t think it’s racist for her to play that role.
But sure, it seems like they could have found someone at least of partial asian descent to play that role. Just like I think BA should have some higher level positions fill by some non white people.