Axios national correspondent Jonathan Swan was outraged by Alexi McCammond’s resignation as editor of Teen Vogue in tweets for a decade, saying on Friday that he did not speak well for the media industry not to accept a sincere apology.
McCammond, who worked alongside Swan for four years at Axios, announced on Thursday that she and Teen Vogue had split up after the team objected to the offensive tweets she sent as a teenager in 2011, which included derogatory comments about the asians.
“I was very sad to see this happen,” said Swan in America’s Newsroom. “I worked with her for four years. She doesn’t have a racist bone in her body. If we can’t, as an industry, accept someone’s sincere and repeated apologies for something she tweeted when she was 17, what are we doing?”
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McCammond, a 27-year-old black woman, had already addressed herself and apologized for the tweets when they emerged in 2019. Despite apologizing then and now for upsetting Teen Vogue’s left-wing employees, she became yet another victim of cancellation of the culture, losing her job before her mandate officially started.
Swan noted that Axios did not fire her after she apologized for the tweets in 2019 and called her “an advocate of anti-racism”.
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“I was upset to see this because it is really just a very clear example of whether we cannot afford to forgive people when they did something or said something or tweeted something when they were 17, and there is no indication in their current professional lives that they nurture these visions, no indication, I don’t really know what we’re doing here, “he said.
Swan also tweeted about the resignation on Thursday, asking “where the hell are we as an industry” so McCammond didn’t have a second chance. Journalists from across the political spectrum agreed, but the Teen Vogue team ultimately got what they wanted.
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CNN correspondent Abby Phillip wrote that McCammond “was obviously not who she was when she wrote those tweets” and while stipulating that it was fair to “demand true remorse”, she wished McCammond had had a chance.
MSNBC’s left-wing presenter Medhi Hasan said the situation left him “sad and frustrated”, tweeting that there was a difference between “active and current racists” and people who apologized for things they said a long time ago.
“Have we lost all sense of proportion? And which one of us did not say or do things that we regret?” he asked.