An associate editor for the New York Times Magazine is facing scrutiny after it was revealed she had posted a number of racist and anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter over a span of two years.
Breitbart News reported on Sept. 22 that Jazmine Hughes’s personal Twitter account—which is linked to her New York Times email—has controversial tweets going back as far as 2014 and continuing into 2017, two years after she was hired by the paper in April 2015.
Breitbart verified the authenticity of Hughes’s social media account, which is listed on her official New York Times Biography page.
Most of the Hughes’s controversial Twitter posts include remarks about “white people,” including one in 2015 that said that the “working title” of an article she was writing for the New Republic was called “What can take yr freedom, but can’t take a joke? White people.”
My working title for this was “What can take yr freedom, but can’t take a joke? White people” but that was (rightfully!) edited out 😀
— Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) February 6, 2015
*a convo in 2100*
1: yo why does Jaz still look so good
2: she stopped paying attention to dumb white people back in 2015! No stress since— Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) March 25, 2015
no new white friends 2k15
— Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) June 22, 2015
And I thought I was mad at white people when it was rumored that Drake was dating Taylor
— Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) November 9, 2016
Other Twitter posts by the editor appeared to target jews, including one tweet where she wrote, “Jews are inDEED good with money,” and “WHO is Beth Israel and how does she have so many hospitals??? Like trust fund or lotto ticket or,” referring to Boston-based Beth Israel Hospital.
WHO is Beth Israel and how does she have so many hospitals??? Like trust fund or lotto ticket or
— Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) March 22, 2014
honestly it was just a matter of time before jenna slid in to confirm that, yes, jews are inDEED good with money
— Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) June 30, 2017
The discovery comes after other employees at the New York Times—most notably Tom Wright-Piersanti, Gina Chérélus, and Sarah Jeong—came under fire after past racist tweets, mostly targeting White and Jewish people, were brought to light.
Jeong, for instance, compared White people to dogs and goblins in several tweets, including one in 2014 where she said “[Expletive] [expletive] white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs [expletive] on fire hydrants.”
And a month later wrote, “white people [are] genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.”
The paper has since stated it “does not condone” the lead technology writer’s behavior.
Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter to criticize the New York Times’ for keeping the employees on staff, writing on Sept. 23: “I started to make a list of all the racist, anti-Semitic @NYTimes employees who’ve made cookie-cutter “apologies” and kept their jobs… But I quickly realized there just aren’t enough hours left in the day.”
I started to make a list of all the racist, anti-Semitic @NYTimes employees who’ve made cookie-cutter “apologies” and kept their jobs… But I quickly realized there just aren’t enough hours left in the day. https://t.co/LkA0RME4TI
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 23, 2019
Hughes’s New York Times bio states that she previously worked as a contributing editor for The Hairpin, a blog, and has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Elle, Gawker, and The New Republic. She also appeared on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” influential media figures list in 2018, Breitbart first reported.
