john r stanton

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john r stanton @dcbigjohn

I’d also argue that as a journalist, I hoped that if I’d been working during the height of Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, I and my newsroom would have not called the grand wizard of the klan for comment or treated the fight for racial justice as a game ... — PolitiTweet.org

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When I was dc bureau chief for @BuzzFeedNews I used to get asked about our support for marriage equality. And I always explained that a, it was an obvious issue of human rights, and therefore fell well outside the rules of “not taking a side” in political fights. — PolitiTweet.org

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that I’d report fairly on what happened, but that this wouldn’t mean treating racists and white terrorists lynching people as good faith actors. That I’d call them racists and terrorists, because that was what they were. And that the fight wasn’t a political game, it was justice — PolitiTweet.org

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