Ep. 6: Apologies
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
Nebulous Media
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What would have happened to Jesse Jackson's work in racial justice movements if American Jews ostracized the activist after his anti-Semitic comments? Instead of ending the careers of those who err, what if cancel mobs sought apologies, and feuding parties made amends? Eli Lake talks apologies on this episode of The Re-Education.
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- 00:03 - Segment: Introduction
- 00:24 - Segment: Monologue
- 12:47 - Segment: Interview with Abe Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eli Lake, and you are listening to the re-education. The theme of the show today is apologies. |
| 0:08.0 | My guest is Abe Foxman, the former National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. |
| 0:20.0 | A little over a year ago, a talented young journalist named Alexie McCamond |
| 0:27.1 | was about to start an exciting job as the editor of Teen Vogue. |
| 0:32.2 | She had made her name covering politics for Axios, |
| 0:35.4 | and was now about to lead a prestigious Conday-Nast publication. |
| 0:39.8 | She was just 27 years old and on her way to stardom. |
| 0:44.8 | And then it unraveled. |
| 0:46.3 | Ten years earlier, when McCamond was a high school senior, she tweeted some things she's |
| 0:51.4 | come to regret. |
| 0:52.7 | There were off-color remarks about Asians. |
| 0:55.4 | She denigrated gays. |
| 0:57.1 | The internet dug up a photo of her dressed as a Native American. |
| 1:01.7 | In 2019, McCamond had apologized on her Twitter feed about some of those earlier tweets, |
| 1:06.5 | but they resurfaced after Condé Nast announced her as the new editor of Team Vogue. |
| 1:11.7 | McCamond apologized again. |
| 1:13.7 | She met with the staff of the magazine to hear them out. |
| 1:16.6 | She made it clear that she deplored her past tweets. |
| 1:20.2 | This is not who she was. |
| 1:22.0 | But it wasn't enough. |
| 1:23.3 | A few advertisers began to walk away. |
| 1:26.3 | Some Team Vogue writers tweeted out their opposition to hiring McCamond. |
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