There’s an air of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible hanging over the US magazine Teen Vogue. First, its new editor Alexi McCammond quit because a decade ago, aged 17, she’d tweeted about waking up with “swollen, Asian eyes”. Then one of her accusers, its social media manager Christine Davitt, was found to have tweeted to a friend in 2010: “N***a I miss yo ass.”Where could this end? On and on, back through time, until everyone is eliminated, often for using a phrase, word or even a context deemed uncontroversial then but racist now. SponsoredIt’s hard not to laugh, since Teen Vogue is itself the Judge Danforth of cancel-culture witch-hunts.

Source: The Times March 25, 2021 00:01 UTC