On Monday, Breitbart writer Katie McHugh was fired for posting several incendiary and racist tweets following the London attack on Saturday night in which ISIS claimed responsibility.
The attack left seven people dead and 48 injured in which three attackers, Khuram Shazad Butt, Rachid Redouane, and one other, used a van to hit several pedestrians on the London Bridge. They then ran off to Borough Market where they stabbed several people. All three attackers were shot and killed by police.
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Reacting to the attack, McHugh took to Twitter and wrote, “there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there.”
This rightly irked upper management at the right-wing news site, which fired McHugh on Monday.
What’s distressing about this is that just days before McHugh was fired, liberal comedian and host Bill Maher wasn’t fired from his HBO show for saying the n-word in front of Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). And before Maher’s comment, CNN host Alisyn Camerota made a racially insensitive remark to the 12-year-old National Spelling Bee champion Ananya Vinay, who’s of Indian descent, when making her spell the word “covfefe.”
12-year-old Ananya Vinay won the National Spelling Bee so naturally CNN had her on to spell “covfefe” and say some racist stuff to her. pic.twitter.com/Qirb8CpBV9
— Jeremy McLellan (@JeremyMcLellan) June 3, 2017
This discrepancy in how these situations are treated tell us that liberals have an extremely low tolerance for racism, unless it comes from a liberal. Conservatives have to be extra careful when dealing with matters of race, ethnicity, or religion. There’s a thin line between just normally being called a racist or bigot over comments that people might just disagree with to calling for their head and demanding they be fired.
Of course double standards exist everywhere you go nowadays, but media organizations should at least display some sort of consistency when their employees tread insensitive or offensive waters.
