People Are Really Piling on the Editors at HuffPo Who Released This Tweet…
Yesterday, Huffington Post‘s executive editor, Liz Heron, posted the following photo to Twitter:
Notice anything about this @HuffingtonPost editors meeting? ?????? pic.twitter.com/7sg4SyraPa
— Liz Heron (@lheron) May 20, 2016
Like many things, this photo, featuring a meeting brimming with white women, made people on the Internet very angry. The women clearly thought they were representative of a diverse workplace, though they seem to have forgotten to hire any people of color for their top spots. Following the prescribed pattern that has worked for angry people online in the past, those who saw this picture started tweeting.
.@lheron I was told that inferring gender identity based on physical characteristics was the height of bigotry, intolerance. How dare you.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 20, 2016
@seanmdav @lheron @jtLOL pic.twitter.com/p4dAX9gz5u
— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) May 21, 2016
@lheron @HuffingtonPost What I notice is that nobody there is more than 3 years out of college. Ignorant, but cheap as dirt to hire.
— Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) May 20, 2016
.@lheron @HuffingtonPost I’m a suburban Harvard-educated white guy named White and that room makes me look like Shaft
— Popehat (@Popehat) May 21, 2016
@lheron Oh my bad you have some Asians waaaaaay in the back all kept together….. pic.twitter.com/NPGa67Y25F
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 20, 2016
It got predictably sexist:
@charlescwcooke @lheron Notice anything about the @HuffingtonPost employee parking lot?
Correlation? pic.twitter.com/qNUdt4TTj5— Fernando Pombeiro (@fernpombeiro) May 20, 2016
And even our own Mediaite staff joined in:
@lheron @HuffingtonPost Not a single non-Apple product in sight?
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 20, 2016
The only black in the room is that second TV? https://t.co/XWdjzxx3FU
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) May 21, 2016
Remember when the Internet was becoming more mainstream and we all started getting it in our houses? Remember clunky graphics of kids on surfboards “surfing the net” after typing a keyword into AOL? Man, we did not see the day we’d live on it and conduct all of our fights on it coming, did we?
Happy Saturday!
[image via screengrab]
