The Young Turks Are Being Sued For Being Racist

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🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Young Turks are facing more accusations of racism, this time from a former employee who accused them of making veiled threats and holding them to a different standard because they were black. Cenk denies the allegations.But this isn't the first problem TYT has had with racism. Cenk had to apologize for racist and sexist blog posts less than a year ago and the name The Young Turks is the name of the group that committed the Armenian Geno****Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The young Turks are once again being accused of racial discrimination. This time, a former employee,
0:05.3	a black journalist, has filed a lawsuit against them claiming racial discrimination.
0:09.4	And the past, the same employee, has filed a complaint against the young Turks for racial discrimination.
0:14.7	This is the first time the young Turks have been accused of being racist. At one point,
0:18.7	Jank Yuger, the founder, wrote racist blog posts for which he had to apologize.
0:22.9	Another is the name of the young Turks, which is tied to the group. It's actually the name of the
0:26.9	group that committed the Armenian genocide. So what exactly did they do this time to warrant a lawsuit?
0:33.0	How are the young Turks responding? And is this progressive news organization actually racist?
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1:16.4	Before we get to the news of the lawsuit, let's look at Buzzfeed News' story from January.
1:21.2	A black journalist has filed a complaint against progressive media outlet The Young Turks for
1:25.5	racial discrimination. Andrew Gerald Jones claimed that he told CEO Genk Eugur about mistreatment,
1:31.9	but was told to, quote, shut the F up and deal, according to the complaint. The quotes
1:36.9	attributed to me in the workplace are completely false, Eugur said. Andrew Jones, a black journalist
1:41.3	whose work has appeared in the Guardian and the Intercept, alleges that young Turks founder and
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