From TheWrap.com…..
USA Today’s race and inclusion editor, Hemal Jhaveri, said she was fired this week after tweeting that the suspect in mass shootings was “always an angry white man” after the Monday massacre of 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket.
In a Medium post published on Friday, Jhaveri acknowledged that her tweet was “a dashed off over-generalization” and “a careless error of judgement, sent at a heated time,” but said she was being punished for “challenging whiteness” and that USA Today contradicted its commitment to diversity and inclusion by firing her. (The suspect in the Boulder killings, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, is of Syrian descent.)
“I can’t do the work I do and write the columns I write without invoking the ire and anger of alt-right Twitter. There is always the threat that tweets which challenge white supremacy will be weaponized by bad faith actors. I had always hoped that when that moment inevitably came, USA TODAY would stand by me and my track record of speaking the truth about systemic racism,” Jhaveri wrote. “That, obviously, did not happen.”
