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USA Today Editor Was Fired For Massive Error, Blames ‘White Supremacy’

Ashe Schow
USA Today Editor Was Fired For Massive Error, Blames ‘White Supremacy’
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USA Today’s “race and inclusion” editor was fired last week after using her professional Twitter account to make the – ultimately wrong – assumption that the man who killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store was white.

Hemal Jhaveri wrote in a Twitter exchange with Deadspin senior editor Julie DiCaro that “it’s always an angry white man” who commits mass shootings. Jhaveri said this in response to DiCaro’s tweet saying, “Extremely tired of people’s lives depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not.”

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