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None are so blind as those who, having eyes, see not.
Huffington Post executive editor Liz Heron appears to be proud of the team of editors the liberal online news source has assembled and took to social media to boast about their diverse workplace.
Heron posted an image on Twitter, along with the caption: “Notice anything about this @HuffingtonPost editors meeting?”
Notice anything about this @HuffingtonPost editors meeting? 💃💃💪🏼💪🏼 pic.twitter.com/7sg4SyraPa
— Liz Heron (@lheron) May 20, 2016
The only problem is, the photo depicts mostly young white women — white privilege notwithstanding. For the record, there are a couple of Asian women at the end of the table.
All of which relegated Heron’s inquiry to little more than an open invitation to social media users of all stripes to pile on… and did they ever.
Here’s a sampling of responses from Twitter:
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.@lheron I was told that inferring gender identity based on physical characteristics was the height of bigotry, intolerance. How dare you.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 20, 2016
@lheron @HuffingtonPost who knew there was so much #WhitePrivilege at the Huffpost, now leave your jobs for #BlackLivesMatter supporters
— JadedByPolitics (@JadedByPolitics) May 20, 2016
@Shoq @lheron And apparently proud of it too.
— Dino Fancellu (@DinoFancellu) May 20, 2016
@lheron No African-Americans.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 20, 2016
@charlescwcooke @lheron Notice anything about the @HuffingtonPost employee parking lot?
Correlation? pic.twitter.com/qNUdt4TTj5— Fernando Pombeiro (@fernpombeiro) May 20, 2016
@TWMNewsUK how dare you imply such a thing!!! How can you be so ignorant?!? 4 of them identify as men and 5 identify as African American!!!
— jackie freeman (@jackie92101) May 20, 2016
@lheron @HuffingtonPost What I notice is that nobody there is more than 3 years out of college. Ignorant, but cheap as dirt to hire.
— Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) May 20, 2016
@lheron Oh my bad you have some Asians waaaaaay in the back all kept together….. pic.twitter.com/NPGa67Y25F
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 20, 2016
I noticed the difference between your team of editors and mine #noblackvoices @lheron @HuffingtonPost pic.twitter.com/OmhBcuiGWo
— Hailey Wallace (@haileywallace22) May 21, 2016
HuffPo embraces diversity… of liberal white women in NYC. @Cernovich @lheron @Soylentopia @HuffingtonPost pic.twitter.com/UaeuKvbUQX
— Bunker Smith (@bunkerwsmith) May 20, 2016
@lheron @HuffingtonPost pic.twitter.com/jwAH8Ug7fe
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) May 21, 2016
@lheron @HuffingtonPost Whiter than a KKK meeting in a snowstorm.
— TANSTAAFL (@TANSTAAFL23) May 20, 2016
@chrisjefferson @TANSTAAFL23 @lheron @HuffingtonPost Delivered. pic.twitter.com/qKoJQSek3l
— PoePoePoeMyBoat (@_MarkingBad_) May 20, 2016
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The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
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