On the Cowardly Firing of Kevin Williamson

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National Review
David French
Apr. 5, 2018

The Atlantic has caved to the intolerant mob and fired Kevin Williamson, and in so doing has contributed to a slanderous fiction — that Kevin is so beyond the pale that he has no place at one of the nation’s premiere mainstream publications. His millions of words, his countless interviews, and his personal character were reduced to nothing — inconsequential in the face of deleted tweets and a five-minute podcast dialogue.

So, what are The Atlantic’s readers now missing? I ask you to read Kevin’s February 18, 2016, NR cover story about the opioid crisis. It’s not a chart-filled, graphics-heavy analysis. It’s a story about people. It’s a story told the way only Kevin can. It takes a reader who may not know or may never meet a heroin addict, and it puts you in their world. By the end, your heart breaks.

More... https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kevin-williamson-firing-by-the-atlantic-cowardly/

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Fired with just one column published. And apparently not for that column. Why the hell did they hire him?

[Sanguine]

Fired with just one column published. And apparently not for that column. Why the hell did they hire him.

So, he was apparently fired for "merely suggesting that abortion is murder and maybe mothers who abort should be held criminally liable is beyond-the-pale hate speech"  (from one of the comments) in a Tweet.

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So, he was apparently fired for "merely suggesting that abortion is murder and maybe mothers who abort should be held criminally liable is beyond-the-pale hate speech"  (from one of the comments) in a Tweet.

His views are hardly a secret so they should have known who they were hiring.

[truth_seeker]

The "column" (article) in question is a hard hitting piece on the opioid crisis.

Maybe the magazine itself is in denial, and simply wants to avoid the topic.

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The "column" (article) in question is a hard hitting piece on the opioid crisis.

Maybe the magazine itself is in denial, and simply wants to avoid the topic.

From what I've read, @Sanguine has it right in post #2.

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that Kevin is so beyond the pale that he has no place at one of the nation’s premiere mainstream publications.

And this right here is why French, Williamson and the Upper East Side douche patrol are irrelevant in the whole. The Atlantic isn't a premier mainstream publication. It is a effete New England snob rag for Left leaning tools. It has a circulation under a half million. People magazine has a circulation somewhere around 4 million. That's mainstream.

If you are going to set your success goal post at whether some garbage Lefty mag lets you play on their shitty field, you deserve to be humiliated and laughed at. BTW Frenchy, why don't you try and make NR relevant again so that you don't have to go work for Communists to feel important.

[Meldrew]

So, he was apparently fired for "merely suggesting that abortion is murder and maybe mothers who abort should be held criminally liable is beyond-the-pale hate speech"  (from one of the comments) in a Tweet.

So what then were the layers of editors and factcheckers doing that allowed this to get through?  Such an august publication as The Atlantic should never have let that happen, right?