I love cooking, and I love their recipes, so I've been keeping an eye on this. And it's been quite a show.
--After a photo of him in a costume pretending to be a Puerto Rican stereotype came out, the (white) editor-in-chief has resigned. Photo is 7 years old. Apparently he doesn't have the Trudeau dispensation for brownface.
--Then some tweets/text messages from the director of video using "homophobic" and "racially insensitive" language were leaked - ope, he's resigned, too. I read those. Nothing shocking. But keep in mind, he's white, too.
--THEN it came out that when he was, like, 18, the drinks editor made edgy jokes. OH NO. Mind you, he's very liberal and has donated to SJW causes, but I guess he can never be forgiven. And yes, he's white, too.
--And apparently we're also supposed to be offended that their most popular chefs are white, because white is bad. Although, isn't that the audience's fault, that the white chefs' youtube vids have more views?
Now it seems to be open season for anyone who ever failed to succeed there to scream RACISM. After getting a polite, professional email (sent to white people too) reminding staffers that the kitchen is a busy workspace and please don't congregate there to talk, multiple young non-white female staffers went and cried in the bathroom, I assume because they're strong independent women. One Asian-American editor complained in a post that in three years, she's never gotten a raise. But she never asked for one. So that's also white people's fault, I guess. They are simultaneously demanding more non-white workers there, and complaining about "tokenism." I have bad news for you, friends.
I don't doubt there are some assholes there, and they obviously have the right to run things as they see fit. But wow, it's amusing watching them all eat each other alive, now that what always seemed like such a harmonious kitchen environment is in flames.
I realize very few people will find this as interesting as I do.
TL;DR - no matter how woke you are, you're not woke enough.
@tammieetc is the twitter handle who's been outing things, and Amelia Rampe has also tweeted about it. I've also looked at the instagram accounts of the other BA personalities. They've all made statements. There's a Business Insider article about it, and also chokes a little Jezebel wrote a piece.
Like any ideological purity test, they're turning on each other. But like any wildfire, they're dangerous to everyone, and that includes us.
Honestly, I'm a simple girl. I just want my recipes and I want to drool over Brad Leone. That's all.
Well and they also posted this (URL with all the Facebook tracking BS removed) - https://www.bonappetit.com/story/where-we-go-from-here
Yeah. The whole thing has happened very, very fast, thanks to social media. Adam Rapoport resigned within hours of the photo becoming public.
Brad's about to get fired so they can bring in Raz.