[eli]

His employer has incentive to minimize what he did. In any event, his conduct caused multiple students to independently complain.

Here’s what one of the students who was there wrote

> “He used the ‘N’ word, said horrible things about black teenagers, and said white supremacy doesn’t exist.”

Perhaps that’s not what he meant but it’s what multiple people who were there heard.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/star-new-york-times-reporter-d...

[bootlooped]

The most ridiculous line from the article, from the NY Times speaking about their review of the incident:

> "We found he had used bad judgment by repeating a racist slur in the context of a conversation about racist language."

If you can't speak a slur in the context of a conversation about racist language, when can you? In what possible conversation would it be more appropriate?

[throwaway210222]

> If you can't speak a slur in the context of a conversation about racist language, when can you?

Rap and/or hip-hop + the politically-approved ancestry.

[sir_bearington]

From an anonymous teenager. And even then this source only says "He used the `N` word" not that he actually called a Black person the word as a pejorative.