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More of Katherine Maher’s Far-Left Tweets – HotAir

April 16, 2024
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How We Lost Our Way at NPR – HotAir

Ed mentioned this earlier today. Christopher Rufo has been digging up some of Katherine Maher’s old tweets and word of that is now getting some attention including at NPR. But NPR doesn’t include any of the tweets it merely describes two of them.

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR’s new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network. Among others, those posts include a 2020 tweet that called Trump racist and another that appeared to minimize rioting during social justice protests that year.

For those that follow the link, they can see at least one of the tweets in question, but even that one has been downplayed by NPR. She didn’t just call Trump racist, she called him a “deranged racist sociopath.”

Similarly, the NY Times has a story up which only mentions a couple of tweets Rufo has turned up.

“Also, Donald Trump is a racist,” read one of Ms. Maher’s posts in 2018, which has since been deleted. Another post, from November 2020, shows Ms. Maher wearing a hat with the logo for the Biden presidential campaign.

Neither one of these tweets would be considered very daring by most Democrats these days, which is probably why they were selected. But there are lot more tweets that deserve some air time because they help pin Maher down as a person who is not just left but far left on every issue. Consider a few examples that won’t make it into the NY Times. Here she is tweeting about her “cis white mobility privilege.”

This one seems pretty relevant. How can we make our organization anti-racist if anti-racism isn’t the point of the organization?

Her idea of balance was to eliminate anything deemed “discriminatory content” which you can probably guess would not leave much room for criticism of whatever the left is saying at any given moment.

The idea that she could possibly run NPR with anything approaching a moderate take on the news is ridiculous. She’s not even aiming for that. Of course she was terribly upset by Tom Cotton’s op-ed back in 2020. The NY Times should never have published it, she said.

Meanwhile, her thoughts on white silence from the summer of 2020:

More thoughts on whiteness.

Of course she supports reparations.

It’s pretty clear where all of the world’s problems are coming from in Maher’s view. Substitute any other race and we would call this blatant racism.

White supremacy…It’s the real issue:

It’s the reason she hates Silicon Valley:

And on and on it goes.

A few more from Christopher Rufo:

And of course she’s against the gender binary.

She decided not to have kids because of climate change.

She has repeated every leftist trope of the last five years.

Here’s the one on “transit justice.”

Anyway, I wanted to drag all of these into a thread because they collectively created a very different impression than the couple of mild tweets that NPR and the Times chose to highlight. This isn’t just someone who is left-of-center, this is someone who is a hard left ideologue. She’s clearly someone who has no intention of running any organization with anything approaching fairness. It’s amazing that her outspoken partisanship was seen at a plus at NPR with no sense at all that maybe a publicly funded outlet should make an effort to represent more than a small sliver of the country.



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