When Huffington Post editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen approved and even posted via her Twitter account a headline entitled “Goy, Bye!” in reference to former-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s ouster on Friday afternoon, surely she suspected at least a few raised eyebrows.
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/898593716922929152
Was the headline, reportedly written by front-page editor Chloe Angyal, meant to somehow troll Bannon because of all the baseless ‘white nationalist’ accusations that have come from the Left about him, or was it something even more sinister, a reference to Bannon’s Jewish enemies inside the White House, Jared Kushner and Gary Cohn?
Since the word “goy” happens to be a derogatory slur for non-Jews, as opposed to the more technical term “gentile,” some people couldn’t help but wonder.
Daily Wire contributor Harry Khachatrian recalled a time when the Huffington Post was concerned about antisemitism:
I'm old enough to remember when HuffPost was super concerned with antisemitism in America, a day ago pic.twitter.com/0B29uemFUa
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) August 18, 2017
Then he posted this Twitter classic:
When you try going on HuffPost-dot-com and it redirects you to DailyStormer pic.twitter.com/XpdhYiWWd4
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) August 18, 2017
The Anti-Defamation League, not often one to find offense from the Left, took issue with the headline, with ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt tweeting, “Not sure your intent, but strikes me as poor taste at best, very offensive at worst.”
The headline even had Keith Olbermann asking “WTF?”
Say, @HuffPost, WTF? pic.twitter.com/zBmSw6r0a6
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 18, 2017
Polgreen doubled down, at first.
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/898594727053983745
But then, the Huffington Post editor backed off.
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/898624334499106817
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/898624416891916288
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/898646351474503682
So then, she changed it to this!
HuffPost-dot-com's updated homepage: "White Flight".
This is related to Bannon's resignation… how? pic.twitter.com/8ylfo85Qv5— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) August 18, 2017
Which, naturally, drew even more criticism, albeit from a different place.
Racial tensions in America soaring. Riots, assaults, deaths.
Huffington Post chooses to make Bannon's exit about race.
Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/Jc7lmXckR4
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/irmahinojosa_/status/898633690896412673
I would say @HuffPost's new Bannon headline ("White Flight") in exactly the same bad taste as the one it replaces ("Goy, Bye").
— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) August 18, 2017
Hey, as President Trump has learned all too well, you can’t make everyone happy – so might as well be yourself, even if you’re a Leftist “fake-news” outlet.
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