Pro-Hanging Conservative Gets Fired
April 7, 2018
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as posted by the channelWriter Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic for his extreme views. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, and Alyona Minkovski, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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“The Atlantic has fired conservative writer Kevin Williamson after a past episode of his podcast resurfaced in which he called for women who have abortions to face the death penalty.
The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg made the announcement to staff in a memo Thursday, according to multiple media reports.
Williamson’s hiring last month had already drawn scrutiny over past tweets in which he stated that “the law should treat abortion like any other homicide” and that for punishment, “I have hanging more in mind." Those tweets have since been deleted.
"The language he used in this podcast — and in my conversations with him in recent days — made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views,” Goldberg wrote in the memo.
"The tweet was not merely an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it. Furthermore, the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. This runs contrary to The Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate, and to the values of our workplace.”
Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, Alyona Minkovski
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, Alyona Minkovski
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