If you don’t believe me switch those words with any other sexual and/or racial identifier and think how wrong it’d be if someone said :white Trans need not apply, black women need not apply, Arabic nonidentifying need not apply. It feels disgusting, so why do that to anyone even if “historically they’ve been advantaged”. Because last time I checked historical advantage didn’t play apart in the life son of a Russian immigrant family, who made it past the Iron curtain under threat of death to America, pursuing journalism just to be rejected by a place due to having light skin and identifying as male.

This is the boss of Buzzfeed whom despite their reputation is a very large and known website defending her terrible behaviour on loopholes. What a joke!!!

This isn’t progressive, this is letting a woman with too much power and too little maturity rule the coup no matter the decisions. If you have to defend something from being not illegal but still pretty unethical and only tell what you want, then you’re no better. What a shameful way of exploiting this and making it seem this is a random hit piece on her. She conducted herself so poorly and while racist and equally venomous comments towards her took it too far, her conduct absolutely should be questioned. She’s her own worst enemy and this backfired. Lost among the obnoxious remarks between her and her posters are legitimate questions about her professionalism and the double standard of their future hiring prospects. Don’t tell me it’s a non-issue because you technically weren’t hiring or didn’t specifically word it one way or the other. This is an issue you can’t back peddle and squirm your way out of, which is being exhibited here. Instead of an apology or stand by either side, it automatically becomes a poor Scaahi story. Embarrassing for her, Buzzfeed and her followers. You can’t have it both ways, just own up to your mistakes and be done with it.

Plan B is taking time off Twitter to build up her sympathy and come back with a HiringGate type angle for her book. But Plan A was so poorly executed that the basis for her getting the attention she thought she was going to get isn’t there though and explaining her nasty attitude for reaction isn’t something to boast about.

Scaachi wasn’t harassed off Twitter for reaching out to POC, which would have been a commendable act. She specifically, verbatim told white men their contributions wouldn’t be valued. Had she left out the misandrist, racist snark, this would have been a non-story. Unfortunately, this is consistent throughout her material.

How this somehow translates into progressive thought is beyond my reach. Inclusivity doesn’t have to be at the explicit expense of any one group. Imagine calling for fitness writers by asking for “non-cripples” — it’s totally unnecessary and unbecoming of her employer.

Hell is fellow white people.