Washington Post fires reporter Felicia Somnez who objected to misogynistic tweets

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really seeing that retweet as “creating a hostile environment”:

Elements of a hostile work environment include:

Discrimination based on religion, age, race, sex or disability.
Intimidating environment
Offensive behavior
Physical or mental abuse

https://www.schwartzandperry.com/blog/2021/june/3-things-that-may-indicate-a-hostile-work-enviro/

I mean, this was offensive behavior and that’s why he was disciples. The system worked the way it was supposed to.

I agree. I did not find the joke funny, but I did not find it outright offensive. For lack of a better word, it was trashy. It was a trashy joke and even trashier of Weigel to tweet it from an account associated with his professional role. No idea why he thought it was so funny it needed to be shared with all of his followers, but he does seem to have poor judgment. I agree a suspension without pay is fair.

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Anonymous wrote:She acted crazy on Twitter. Coworkers shouldn’t be blasted online like that.

Um, you mean like the guy who wrote that all women are bipolar or bisexual? That guy who still has a job at the WaPo?

I don't see where she "went crazy," but I could have missed it. All I see/saw was her retweet with “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!”
What was the rest that Jose Del Real was calling out>

You missed days and days of tweets, even after Weigel took down his post and apologized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

I think it’s interesting that Weigel’s supporters won’t answer this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

I think it’s interesting that Weigel’s supporters won’t answer this.

Whataboutism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

I think it’s interesting that Weigel’s supporters won’t answer this.

Whataboutism.

No, it’s not. You don’t understand the meaning of whataboutism. Where is your line? It should be a straightforward question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

No, stay calm, ladies. Looking like a hysterical hot mess does not impress anyone except other hysterical hot messes. If you want to be heard, be calm, cool and collected.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The funny thing is that Dave Wiegel was already forced to resign from the Washington Post after just three months (in 2010) for writing unprofessional content. I guess the WaPo didn't learn its lesson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504413.html

David Weigel, who was hired by The Washington Post to blog about conservatives, resigned Friday after leaked online messages showed him disparaging some Republicans and commentators in highly personal terms.

Weigel, whose tenure lasted three months, apologized Thursday for writing on a private e-mail exchange that Matt Drudge should "handle his emotional problems more responsibly and set himself on fire." He also mocked Ron Paul, the Texas congressman, by referring to the "Paultard Tea Party."

I posted days ago about this same issue. It show gross immaturity and poor judgement that he tweets all of his idiotic thoughts. It’s only sort of excusable if he’s 23 and fresh out of school. But as a grown adult? Wapo should be embarrassed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

I think it’s interesting that Weigel’s supporters won’t answer this.

That’s because it’s a stupid comparison & pp doesn’t understand what “racist” means. Criticism of the Chinese state is not “racist.”

Huckabee’s tweet was critical of US corporations sucking up to the Chinese government. These corporations work so hard to appear to be supportive of diversity and personal freedoms in the US, while completely looking the other way on human rights abuses and genocide in China because their afraid of losing their access to the Chinese markets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

I think it’s interesting that Weigel’s supporters won’t answer this.

That’s because it’s a stupid comparison & pp doesn’t understand what “racist” means. Criticism of the Chinese state is not “racist.”

Huckabee’s tweet was critical of US corporations sucking up to the Chinese government. These corporations work so hard to appear to be supportive of diversity and personal freedoms in the US, while completely looking the other way on human rights abuses and genocide in China because their afraid of losing their access to the Chinese markets.

Stupid autocorrect — “they are afraid of losing their access to the Chinese markets.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The funny thing is that Dave Wiegel was already forced to resign from the Washington Post after just three months (in 2010) for writing unprofessional content. I guess the WaPo didn't learn its lesson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504413.html

David Weigel, who was hired by The Washington Post to blog about conservatives, resigned Friday after leaked online messages showed him disparaging some Republicans and commentators in highly personal terms.

Weigel, whose tenure lasted three months, apologized Thursday for writing on a private e-mail exchange that Matt Drudge should "handle his emotional problems more responsibly and set himself on fire." He also mocked Ron Paul, the Texas congressman, by referring to the "Paultard Tea Party."

I posted days ago about this same issue. It show gross immaturity and poor judgement that he tweets all of his idiotic thoughts. It’s only sort of excusable if he’s 23 and fresh out of school. But as a grown adult? Wapo should be embarrassed.

This is my biggest question. I do think Felicia's behavior warranted firing. But I do have questions about wtf is wrong with Weigel in the first place. He's 40. What professional 40yo man sees that tweet and goes, "You know what, this is so funny I am going to retweet it from my work account lol"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In her Thursday thread, Sonmez argued that the colleagues of hers who publicly defended The Post this week are white and among the most highly paid in the newsroom.
"It is a great workplace *for them*," she wrote.
Sonmez questioned in the thread whether The Post's institutional framework was working for "everyone else."

…she’s not white?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The funny thing is that Dave Wiegel was already forced to resign from the Washington Post after just three months (in 2010) for writing unprofessional content. I guess the WaPo didn't learn its lesson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504413.html

David Weigel, who was hired by The Washington Post to blog about conservatives, resigned Friday after leaked online messages showed him disparaging some Republicans and commentators in highly personal terms.

Weigel, whose tenure lasted three months, apologized Thursday for writing on a private e-mail exchange that Matt Drudge should "handle his emotional problems more responsibly and set himself on fire." He also mocked Ron Paul, the Texas congressman, by referring to the "Paultard Tea Party."

I posted days ago about this same issue. It show gross immaturity and poor judgement that he tweets all of his idiotic thoughts. It’s only sort of excusable if he’s 23 and fresh out of school. But as a grown adult? Wapo should be embarrassed.

Yeah. That makes the Post look pretty dumb. Wiegel did something similar being nasty about conservatives in 2010 and was forced to resign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The funny thing is that Dave Wiegel was already forced to resign from the Washington Post after just three months (in 2010) for writing unprofessional content. I guess the WaPo didn't learn its lesson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504413.html

David Weigel, who was hired by The Washington Post to blog about conservatives, resigned Friday after leaked online messages showed him disparaging some Republicans and commentators in highly personal terms.

Weigel, whose tenure lasted three months, apologized Thursday for writing on a private e-mail exchange that Matt Drudge should "handle his emotional problems more responsibly and set himself on fire." He also mocked Ron Paul, the Texas congressman, by referring to the "Paultard Tea Party."

I posted days ago about this same issue. It show gross immaturity and poor judgement that he tweets all of his idiotic thoughts. It’s only sort of excusable if he’s 23 and fresh out of school. But as a grown adult? Wapo should be embarrassed.

Yeah. That makes the Post look pretty dumb. Wiegel did something similar being nasty about conservatives in 2010 and was forced to resign.

Actually it makes the Post look pretty sexist. It’s not ok to bash conservatives but it’s fine to bash women?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

This is a bad comparison to Weigel’s tweet. Not even remotely the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

According to his Post bio, he covers "grass roots political movements." How could you trust him to cover something related to women's rights?