![]() 'If you want my opinion it's that there are some limited reasons why a non African American journalist or professor to use the word when conveying a quote in the name of clarity or factualness But it's not a comfortable point to even pursue right now. In response, Slate staff writer, Rachelle Hampton, who is black, hit back at Pesca's comments, saying: 'Feel like it's weird that everyone's dancing around the point that working in an environment where white people feel empowered to say the n-word in service of whatever argument they want to make is incredibly hostile for black people.'Īccording to Defector, the conversation continued for a few more hours with Pesca making his final point: 'I don't think it's proper to use it in casual conversation and I'm in no position to tell Black NY Times workers that they shouldn't be worried it's going to pop out of a colleague's mouth at some point. Worthy of a talking to or a 'What are you doing as a representative of the Times, Don?' But nothing requirement much angst among management or staff? Or no? – should the Times discipline staffers who question the idea of white supremacy or who express retrograde ideas on mass incarceration?' Pesca wrote. Expressing the views, not the word, the views he did on that trip are not fire-able. 'My points are his internal conduct was in a grey area, you guys don't think it was, Pesca reportedly told his coworkers. Slate has reportedly suspended popular podcast host, Mike Pesca (pictured in 2019), 'indefinitely' after he defended the use of the N-word in certain contexts during a discussion with colleagues over the resignation of a New York Times reporter who used the slurĪccording to Defector, during the conversation Pesca suggested that McNeil should not have resigned, writing: 'McNeil's journalism made the Times more valuable to more Americans than having ousted him in 2019 would have.'
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