NPR: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been the target of racist attacks following last week's Key Bridge collapse.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been the target of racist attacks following last week's Key Bridge collapse.

Baltimore mayor faces racist attacks after bridge collapsewww.npr.org Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been the target of racist attacks following last week's Key Bridge collapse.

We have replaced an earlier version of this post with one that has more accurate language.

good job, Underpaid NPR Socials Manager

Bullying works. 😤

Since when is helping a news outlet be more accurate (rather than ignoring their echoing racist horseshit) known as "bullying"???

To be clear I am pro bullying in this case and also it was a comedy joke post hence the 😤

Ah. Jolly good then. My sarcasm detector ain't what it used to be. I was all like "People are regularly being doxxed and their families' lives threatened over political theater, and THIS is bullying?"

I don’t mean to dunk on you, but “bullying works” is a pretty old and common trope about people giving enough negative feedback to a post from a brand or media outlet to make them change their story to something that more accurately reflects a situation. We are bullying the brand.

I had never heard that phrase before either, so I also misread “bullying works” as criticism. Thank you for your clear explanation.

Yup. I grok that now. Never was on what it now Xitter (pronounced with the pinyin X) and got off of FB early, so rather unfamiliar with such tropes.

Thanks

The power of historians!

Thank you, Kevin. Nice work!

Damn! I got a bit verklempt seeing that accurate headline.

bullying works

Still super passive voice, still giving validity to the charge of “dei hire”. How about “racist twats use the tragedy of a boat wrecking a bridge to attack a black Mayor”

They worded their post awkwardly. They're saying the original post used the emphemism "DEI" and they replaced THAT headline with the full truth at the top that the mayor is dealing with racist attacks.

Good work, and please remember to alt text

Thank you.

How about an apology with that redo, @npr.org

It’s remarkable enough that the posted the old one with an explanation instead of trying to pretend that it never happened

It’s not enough.

Ok, see you at the struggle session, Conrad

thanks

Thank you.

that is wisdom

Racist is more accurate than "DEI Hire" since the latter is a white-washing of the former.

...aren't mayors elected?

It's almost as if the people yelling "DEI Hire" are doing so in bad faith! SHOCKING, i kno.

that being said it was how clintonites talked about Obama until he made her Sec of State

nice, thank you for fixing it

Where is the alt text?

Good correction.

It is good that you did this but you understand why, as a new organization, you really really really cannot fuck up like that?

I hope you’re also having a serious internal conversation about how you allowed the first post to even happen.

You still as an institution habitually rehabilitate racist viewpoints by presenting them as legitimate claims that warrant serious consideration The “DEI” claims here were absurd racism on their face. One of the biggest ships in the world hit a bridge, there’s no basis to give air to the racists

good. thank you.

thank you. do better next time; there’s literally zero explanation or excuse for using the term “diversity hire” for a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED OFFICIAL even if it wasn’t pure racism (which it of course was.) it’s like you called ice cream a cement block. it makes absolutely no fucking sense.

diversity hire? who hired the mayor??? we should fire them! oh wait *checks notes* he was democratically elected like every other politician? wow gee it's almost like… you're "privileging the lie" in your headlines

stop being a stenographer for the worst people

disabled people are human as of 1990 pal. learn how to use alt text before someone makes you

Fascinating how you needed help getting there.

Okay. Keep up with that listening and learning.

good jorb

The headline is much better, but the article itself never says directly that this attack is utter nonsense. The only real push-back is pointing out that public officials are elected not hired. I mean, that's true, but the real point is that DEI had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the collapse.

Good job, good listening!

Good call. Thanks, NPR. We can take accuracy!

Thank you for making the correction.

Much clearer, thanks. I would also have understood "DEI hire" -- that seems to be the crux of the racist innuendo, a trope many of us have learned to decode.

Thank you!

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