Jonathan Swan Calls Out Ouster of Teen Vogue EIC Alexi McCammond: ‘What Are We Doing? She Was 17 Years Old?’

Axios’ Jonathan Swan condemned the fact that Alexi McCammond, who was named editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue earlier this month, stepped down from the position due to past offensive tweets.

McCammond, who was previously a political reporter for Axios and worked with Swan, faced scrutiny from the public and from staffers at Teen Vogue in regards to her posts, which show her mocking Asian people and using homophobic slurs.

“Now googling how to not wake up with swollen, asian eyes….,” reads one of the past tweets.

“Give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don’t explain what I did wrong … thanks a lot stupid asian T.A. you’re great,” she wrote in another.

In addition to the anti-Asian tweets, McCammond also flippantly used “gay” and “homo” as insults in other posts.

McCammond first apologized in 2019, then issued another apology upon taking the job at Teen Vogue for the “offensive, idiotic tweets,” admitting that they “perpetuated harmful and racist stereotypes about Asian Americans.”

Despite the apologies, McCammon continued to face backlash, as many pointed to the recent rise in anti-Asian attacks, eventually prompting her to leave her position at Condé Nast.

“I was just really sad to see this happen,” Swan said of her decision to step down.

“I worked with her for four years. She doesn’t have a racist bone in her body,” he added, despite the offensive tweets. “I said this yesterday — if we can’t as an industry accept somebody’s sincere and repeated apologies for something they tweeted when they were 17 years old — I mean, what are we doing? What are we doing?”

Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer then questioned how teenagers today, who read Teen Vogue, will view McCammond’s decision to step down following the unearthed insults.

“And look, there were racist tweets and she apologized two years ago when they first came out,” Swan added. “Axios didn’t fire her. She apologized sincerely. I’ve worked closely with her for four years.”

He claimed again that “there isn’t a racist bone in her body” before criticizing the fact that people can be held accountable for hurtful remarks they made while in college.

“If we can’t allow ourselves to forgive people when they did something or said something or tweeted something when they were 17-years-old and there is no indication in their current professional lives that they harbor these views, not a single indication, I don’t know what we’re doing here really,” he added.

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