A senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported the ousting of newly-named Editor-in-Chief Alexi McCammond over past controversial tweets concerning Asian Americans used the N-word on social media more than a decade ago.
“I love the contradictory nature of the phrase ‘white n—-,’” Christine Davitt, senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, wrote in one tweet from 2009.
Davitt, who is reportedly of Irish and Filipino descent, also used the N-word in several other tweets. The tweets appear to have been deleted as of Sunday morning.
Davitt’s resurfaced tweets come days after she posted a letter to Instagram expressing concern over McCammond’s hiring at Teen Vogue “in light of her past racist and homophobic tweets.”
“So proud of my @teenvogue colleagues. The work continues…” Davitt wrote in a caption.
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McCammond, who is 27 and would have been the third black woman to serve as the publication’s top editor, resigned on Thursday for the tweets she posted in 2011.
“Now googling how to not wake up with swollen, asian eyes,” one of McCammond’s tweets read. Another said, “Outdone by Asian. #Whatsnew.”
“My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world — and so Condé Nast and I have decided to part ways,” she said in a statement last week.
McCammond’s ousting and the revelation of Davitt’s old tweets sparked some, including HBO’s Bill Maher, to question and slam “cancel culture.”
“I don’t want to talk about cancel culture every week, but I don’t think people understand how much this is a tsunami and how fast the goalposts change, almost on a weekly basis,” Maher said on his show Friday.
“OK, she just got a great job — well, lost a great job— editor of Teen Vogue. And because she tweeted in high school, this is high school,” Maher added of McCammond. “People talk s— in private. We can’t legislate that away.”
“It’s almost as if setting a precedent of firing people for tweets sent as a teenager is a bad idea,” Caleb Hull wrote on Twitter. “Senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported Alexi McCammond’s ousting used ‘N-word’ herself in decade-old tweets.”
It’s almost as if setting a precedent of firing people for tweets sent as a teenager is a bad idea ?
Senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported Alexi McCammond’s ousting used ‘N-word’ herself in decade-old tweets https://t.co/MODnHkImSZ
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 21, 2021
Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah said McCammond’s ousting was proof “that the woke mob of cancel culture will come for anyone.”
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“So by all accounts, Alexi McCammond is both a qualified and experienced journalist, but also left of center and an African American woman who made a name for herself [by] kind of weighing in on some of the social justice issues of the last year or two. So, for the cancel mob to come for her because of things she said as a teenager shows it can come for anyone, your grandma, your wife, your son, your child,” Farah said on Fox News last week.
Teen Vogue did not immediately return the Washington Examiner’s request for comment on Davitt’s resurfaced tweets.
