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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Hateful anti-white posts of woke writer for prestigious Conde Nast magazine
A staff writer for The New Yorker has sparked backlash over a slew of shocking anti-white tweets. Doreen St. Felix, a journalist who has also written for Vogue and Time Magazine, swiftly deleted her social media after X users brought up her tweets about how 'whiteness fills me with a lot of hate.' In other tweets, she wrote that 'whiteness must be abolished', that she 'would be heartbroken if I had kids with a white guy' and that white people's lack of hygiene once started a plague. 'I hate white men,' the 33 year-old Haitian-American writer said in yet another post, which was first highlighted by conservative journalist Chris Rufo. 'You all are the worst. Go nurse your f***ing Oedipal complexes and leave the earth to the browns and the women.' St. Felix found her corrosive missives in the spotlight after writing for the Conde Nast-owned magazine about the controversy surrounding actress Sydney Sweeney 's American Eagle jeans campaign. The article slammed Sweeney's fans for 'wanting to recruit her as a kind of Aryan princess', and said there were plenty of reasons' not to like the actress's advert. Social media users flooded the New Yorker's X post on the article with St Felix's tweets, with one responding: 'She doesn't seem very neutral...' 'I think it may not be about the jeans,' another said, with screenshots of the writer's inflammatory tweets, some of which date back a decade. In one of the resurfaced posts, St Felix admitted that she 'writes like no white is watching.' St Felix's fascination with the Earth before whites continued in other posts, with one saying that 'we lived in perfect harmony w/ the earth pre whiteness.' 'All humans are not the reason the earth is in peril,' she wrote. 'White capitalism is.' Despite her disdain for capitalism, St Felix appears to benefit from its fruits. Her address listed as a $1.3 million home in a gated Brooklyn community which faces a pretty marina. In another post from 2015, she said that 'it's really gonna suck when we have a white president again.' 'White people, who literally started a plague because they couldn't wash their asses, need never say they taught black people hygiene,' she said in another. In one confusing take, St Felix said that 'middle class white people think hospitals are places to go when you're sick - that the police are who you go to when you need safety.' St Felix deleted her social media after the tweets resurfaced, and she could not be reached for comment. Daily Mail has contacted Conde Nast and the New Yorker for reaction to St Felix's missives. St Felix has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017, and is a regular contributor to the weekly column Critics Notebook, according to her New Yorker profile. She was previously editor-at-large at Lenny Letter, a newsletter by actress Lena Dunham, and was a culture writer at MTV News. In 2016, the year after many of her tweets about white people were sent, she was named on Forbes' '30 Under 30' media list. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, and, in 2019, she won in the same category.
Fox News
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Chris Rufo lays out reforms to Trump administration on how to 'save' higher education
Chris Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, laid out a series of reforms in a letter on Monday that he believes will help "save" higher education in the country as well as taxpayers' hard-earned dollars. Rufo published his reforms in the Free Press, in which he calls for President Donald Trump to create a new contract with universities. In the new contract, universities should be part of each payment, loan, grant, eligibility, and accreditation. Failure to comply could mean the termination of all public assistance programs, Rufo suggested. The letter states universities must "advance truth over ideology, with rigorous standards of academic conduct, controls for academic fraud, and merit-based decision-making throughout the enterprise." Signed by over 40 people, including educators, religious leaders, academics and authors, the letter asks universities to stop taking part in social and political activism and "adhere to the principle of color-blind equality, by abolishing DEI bureaucracies, disbanding racially segregated programs, and terminating race-based discrimination in admissions, hiring, promotions, and contracting." It calls for a return to the concept of freedom of speech, the protection of civil discourse and "swift and significant penalties" for anyone who disrupts speakers, vandalizes property, occupies buildings, calls for violence, or prevents the university from carrying outits operations. The list of reforms also includes a request that universities are transparent about their operations and, at the end of each year, disclose the full data on race, admissions, and class rank, as well as employment and financial returns by major, campus attitudes on civil discourse, ideology, and free speech. The call to action directed at the Trump administration comes just over a month after the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust held a hearing on June 4 entitled, "The Elite Universities Cartel: A History of Anticompetitive Collusion Inflating the Cost of Higher Education." It also comes as the Manhattan Institute released a poll on Sunday that found that only 15% of registered voters say they have a lot of trust in private Ivy League colleges and universities. Among America's public colleges and universities, just one in five or 20% of registered voters say they have a "great deal" of trust in these institutions, according to the Manhattan Institute poll.
New York Times
13-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Progressives Need a Global Movement
It's a strange irony that in recent years the nationalist right has gotten much better at international organizing than the ostensibly cosmopolitan left. The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, went global during Donald Trump's first term; it's held gatherings in Israel, South Korea, Hungary and Argentina, among other countries. American conservatives have a growing pantheon of international leaders they take inspiration from, including Hungary's Viktor Orban, El Salvador's Nayib Bukele and Argentina's Javier Milei. This right-wing internationale trades ideas and memes. Its members support one another across borders. A steady stream of American conservative operatives, including the influential strategist Chris Rufo, has passed through Hungary's government-aligned Danube Institute, learning from the country's successful record of using the state to crush liberal institutions. Earlier this year members of the MAGA movement from Alex Jones all the way up to Vice President JD Vance rallied around an ultranationalist Romanian presidential candidate who'd been disqualified due to charges of Russian interference. This week, the nationalist group Patriots for Europe Foundation held a conference at the European Parliament with members of India's right-wing government, aimed at building an alliance based on 'civilizational sovereignty' — as opposed to universal human rights — and the fight against Islamism. There is nothing comparable to this global network among progressives, which is one sign of the left's deep crisis. Partly, progressives' problem is one of inertia. For decades now, when people on the left have coordinated across borders, they've often done it through liberal institutions: international bodies like the United Nations, international NGOs, academic conferences. These institutions tend to favor styles of communication that are highly specialized and bureaucratic. (To be part of the U.N.'s orbit, for example, grass-roots feminist groups often must learn its jargon: 'gender mainstreaming,' 'S.H.R.H.,' 'duty-bearers.') 'The progressive forces, the left and socialist forces, lost the way of communication with the people,' Alexis Tsipras, a leftist former prime minister of Greece, told me. They became, he said, 'more systemic.' And now the systems that sustained the left — particularly academia and nonprofits — are under concerted attack. 'The left basically depended on a fantasy view of the stability of institutions,' said Subir Sinha, a scholar at the University of London who has studied the links between far-right movements in India and Europe. Progressives, he said, neither anticipated nor planned for how they might answer a central question of our time: 'How would you do politics when the ground has shifted so dramatically from under your feet?' Some of that planning has now begun, however belatedly. This week, Tsipras convened a conference in Athens of progressives from Europe, Turkey, Latin America and the United States to discuss the global crisis of liberal democracy. It was the second such gathering he's organized, and the first since Trump was re-elected. Among the speakers was Senator Bernie Sanders, joining remotely. 'Right-wing extremists all over the world have been organizing effectively, and I think that it's time that we built an international progressive socialist movement, and this is a step forward,' he said. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Target Ends DEI Initiatives, Becoming Latest Company to Bow to the Right's Moral Panic
Bloomberg/Getty Images Them' Target is the latest corporation to cave to conservative pressure and scale back its diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) programs aimed at benefiting marginalized communities. On January 24, the Minneapolis-based retailer announced via a fact sheet that it would conclude 'our three diversity, equity, and inclusion' goals; shift its 'Supplier Diversity' team to a 'Supplier Engagement' team; and end all external diversity-focused surveys, including the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking tool that measures benefits, practices, and policies pertaining to LGBTQ+ employees. Additionally, Target stated that the company would conclude its Racial Equity Action and Change (REACH) initiatives in 2025, 'as planned.' These initiatives, which were introduced in 2020, included pledges to source and design 'significantly more products' from Black creators and institute anti-racism training and education for all employees. 'Many years of data, insights, listening, and learning have been shaping this next chapter in our strategy,' Target's chief community impact and equity officer Kiera Fernandez said in a memo to staff, per CBS News. 'And as a retailer that serves millions of consumers every day, we understand the importance of staying in step with the evolving external landscape, now and in the future.' Target joins at least 12 major corporations that have announced rollbacks to DEI programs aimed at communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community, including Amazon, McDonald's, and Walmart. These changes follow a series of right-wing anti-DEI campaigns that have gained notoriety in recent years, aided by propagandists like Chris Rufo, who engineered the anti-LGBTQ+ 'grooming' panic; and Robbie Starbuck, who rose to prominence as an anti-mask advocate in 2020 and later allegedly deceived drag performers into appearing in the 2023 anti-trans documentary The War on Children. Starbuck took credit for Target's policy changes in a January 24 X post, claiming that the company did so after finding out that Starbuck was 'doing a story on wokeness there.' President Donald Trump has also prioritized dismantling DEI during his second presidential administration, issuing an executive order to 'revoke federal DEI requirements' shortly after taking office on January 20. Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that Trump's 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE) — a presidential advisory commission led by Elon Musk — is considering cutting over $120 billion in annual DEI spending. As for Target, the company has a history of wavering on its commitments to LGBTQ+ in the face of conservative pushback. In 2016, Target stated that trans employees and customers could use bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, becoming one of the first major retailers to speak out amid national debates over trans bathroom accessibility. However, after some customers threatened to boycott Target in response, the company announced it would spend $20 million to add single-toilet bathrooms with lockable doors to more stores. In 2023, Target removed some of its Pride merchandise due to right-wing backlash and threats of violence toward employees. The following year, the retailer opted not to stock Pride-themed items at half of its 1,956 U.S. stores. Target has already faced plenty of public backlash for its decision to scale back its DEI initiatives, perhaps most notably from the Twin Cities Pride festival, which operates in the same city where the company is headquartered. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Target has historically been a major donor to Twin Cities Pride, donating between $50,000 and $70,000 to the organization each year. In a January 26 Instagram post, Twin Cities Pride announced that it had made the decision to part ways with Target as a sponsor, 'standing firm in our commitment to LGBTQIA+ inclusion and equity.' 'In a time where it's been a really, really rough week for our community given everything that has come down from the new administration, this was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back,' Twin Cities Pride Executive Director Andi Otto told the Star Tribune during a January 26 interview. '[...] Our community does not want to see someone who has rolled back [DEI] policies in a place where they want to celebrate and feel empowered.' Get the best of what's queer. Sign up for Them's weekly newsletter here. Originally Appeared on them.
