WALSH: Time Magazine Makes Racist, Transphobic Pick For Person Of The Year

The white supremacist publication Time announced today that white person Greta Thunberg has been named Person of the Year. While I suppose the magazine hopes that the pick will be celebrated based on Thunberg’s climate activism, I personally will not be throwing any confetti.

I find it frankly shocking that in the year 2019, a year when Trump-inspired hate crimes against minority communities have reached record highs, according to a meme I saw on Facebook, Time would elect to shine its spotlight on a privileged, white, cisgendered westerner. What message are they trying to send? That only the white and the wealthy care about the planet? That heroism and generosity are virtues exclusive to the progeny of colonialist powers? That traditionally gendered whites are better than everyone else? I see no other way to interpret this choice.