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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never get the humor in his articles.   That one was particularly unfunny.[/quote]

Agree with this.  Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I just read the article and it astounds me that this man is paid to write. It is like something from a bad high school newspaper.[/quote]

Well, being unfunny and/or a subpar writer does NOT equate to being racist and certainly does not require issuing an apology.

[b]Everyone should seriously be worried about free speech. [/b]This is ridiculous.[/quote]
Has a court issued a decree banning Weingarten's column? Didn't think so. So, no, no one should be worried about free speech. The ridiculous thing is to pretend otherwise.

People pay money to read the Washington Post. Those readers are entitled to say that they don't want to read ignorant, uninformed drivel. If Weingarten's "critique" were at least based in fact, then it would likely have received a different response...but it was simultaneously ignorant and offensive, while also drawing upon centuries of racist, reductive tropes. Refusing to hear that and calling anyone who points it out "ridiculous" is what's ridiculous. Would it also be okay for him to compare Beyonce or any other Black musician to a minstrel show?[/quote]

But it's not like he's the food critic writing a review of a restaurant. He's a humor columnist writing a satirical piece about his own persnickitiness. He's already apologized. [b]You don't like his column, don't read it.[/b]
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Exactly. WaPo has been giving me a million reasons to drop the subscription, and this one made the decision final. I don't need to pay for a newspaper that chooses to run nonsense like this.[/quote]

WaPo publishes a lot of nonsense. Most of their political reporting and op eds/commentaries are written by highly divisive people, and their new editor has said a lot of nasty stuff too. Why did you wait so long before cancelling your subscription?

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