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The Chicago-based Deadspin, the sports blog, railed over the weekend about a young man at a Kansas City Chiefs football game who appeared in the stands wearing a headdress, his face painted in the colors of black and red. The Deadspin commentator Carron Phillips attacked the kid, saying “This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate. You give future generations the ammunition they need to evolve and recreate racism better than before.”

But it turns out, there were glaring problems and deficiencies with Phillips’ screed. First of all, the young boy isn’t white. His grandfather, Raul Armenta, sits on the board of the Chumash Tribe in California. So Phillips was entirely off-base in assuming any kind of racism whatsoever.

Did Deadspin retract or apologize for Phillips’ error? Nope, not again. They chose to pointlessly smear a young man. They didn’t bother to check the accuracy of Phillips’ screed, just as he didn’t check his facts in the first place. Our conclusion: Phillips is not a journalist. He’s just a frigging leftist and a race charlatan! Here’s more from Mark Dice.

Far Left Writers Resigning

A top editor for a woke media outlet resigned amid controversy and a hit piece against their bosses.

Great Hill Partners purchased the Gizmodo Media group recently and appears to be trying to remove overt politics from the sports website Deadspin. The Gizmodo union was outraged a few weeks ago when a survey appeared on the website asking readings what they disliked most about Deadpsin and politics was an option.

It’s a relevant question. Why would a sports website write about far left activist politics and woke social justice narratives? I don’t care about the politics I care about the sports. Not only that but one of the main complaints from the far left activist journalists was that the parent company was hiring too many “white dudes.” It seems their complaints were driven by ideology.

This editorial rift seems to have resulted in the top editor’s resignation but this comes just after we heard Gawker’s relaunch was canceled.

Gawker was set to relaunch as a different company but due to offensive tweets from the new boss two of the writers quit. They specifically cited the offensive posts.

At least with these companies it seems that the people running the show know that sometimes getting woke means going broke and that getting rid of the wokeness will bring a path to success.

One of the problems isn’t necessarily the politics however, its the fact that almost every company is chasing the same narrative of wokeness and far left politics. This means every website is basically the same thing over and over. Eventually it gets boring. More from Tim Pool.

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